10 ideas
13418 | The old problems with the axiom of choice are probably better ascribed to the law of excluded middle [Parsons,C] |
18270 | Choice suggests that intensions are not needed to ensure classes [Coffa] |
13419 | If functions are transfinite objects, finitists can have no conception of them [Parsons,C] |
13417 | If a mathematical structure is rejected from a physical theory, it retains its mathematical status [Parsons,C] |
18263 | The semantic tradition aimed to explain the a priori semantically, not by Kantian intuition [Coffa] |
18272 | Platonism defines the a priori in a way that makes it unknowable [Coffa] |
18088 | Intentionality is the mark of dispositions, not of the mental [Place] |
18266 | Mathematics generalises by using variables [Coffa] |
18089 | Dispositions are not general laws, but laws of the natures of individual entities [Place] |
18279 | Relativity is as absolutist about space-time as Newton was about space [Coffa] |