7 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] |
10121 | Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor lack of contradiction a sign of truth [Pascal] |
8205 | Explaining events just by bodies can't explain two events identical in space-time [Quine] |
12251 | Substantial forms are not understood, and explain nothing [Descartes] |
8206 | Necessity could be just generalisation over classes, or (maybe) quantifying over possibilia [Quine] |
16772 | An angelic mind would not experience pain, even when connected to a human body [Descartes, by Pasnau] |