4 ideas
17743 | De Morgan introduced a 'universe of discourse', to replace Boole's universe of 'all things' [De Morgan, by Walicki] |
10632 | The real numbers may be introduced by abstraction as ratios of quantities [Hale, by Hale/Wright] |
8824 | No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim] |
15251 | The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer] |