9 ideas
8207 | The quest for simplicity drove scientists to posit new entities, such as molecules in gases [Quine] |
8208 | In arithmetic, ratios, negatives, irrationals and imaginaries were created in order to generalise [Quine] |
23476 | Logical constants seem to be entities in propositions, but are actually pure form [Russell] |
23477 | We use logical notions, so they must be objects - but I don't know what they really are [Russell] |
18273 | Logical truths are known by their extreme generality [Russell] |
8205 | Explaining events just by bodies can't explain two events identical in space-time [Quine] |
22315 | There can't be a negative of a complex, which is negated by its non-existence [Potter on Russell] |
8206 | Necessity could be just generalisation over classes, or (maybe) quantifying over possibilia [Quine] |
2116 | The concept of an existing thing must contain more than the concept of a non-existing thing [Leibniz] |