7 ideas
8208 | In arithmetic, ratios, negatives, irrationals and imaginaries were created in order to generalise [Quine] |
8207 | The quest for simplicity drove scientists to posit new entities, such as molecules in gases [Quine] |
22104 | Truth is the conformity of being to intellect [Aquinas] |
22103 | Being is basic to thought, and all other concepts are additions to being [Aquinas] |
8205 | Explaining events just by bodies can't explain two events identical in space-time [Quine] |
8206 | Necessity could be just generalisation over classes, or (maybe) quantifying over possibilia [Quine] |
17722 | The concept 'red' is tied to what actually individuates red things [Peacocke] |