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] |
18253 | I wish to go straight from cardinals to reals (as ratios), leaving out the rationals [Frege] |
18166 | The loss of my Rule V seems to make foundations for arithmetic impossible [Frege] |
8205 | Explaining events just by bodies can't explain two events identical in space-time [Quine] |
18269 | Logical objects are extensions of concepts, or ranges of values of functions [Frege] |
8206 | Necessity could be just generalisation over classes, or (maybe) quantifying over possibilia [Quine] |
541 | Virtue comes more from habit than character [Critias] |
542 | Fear of the gods was invented to discourage secret sin [Critias] |