16 ideas
4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
21695 | The set scheme discredited by paradoxes is actually the most natural one [Quine] |
21693 | Russell's antinomy challenged the idea that any condition can produce a set [Quine] |
21691 | Antinomies contradict accepted ways of reasoning, and demand revisions [Quine] |
21690 | Whenever the pursuer reaches the spot where the pursuer has been, the pursued has moved on [Quine] |
21689 | A barber shaves only those who do not shave themselves. So does he shave himself? [Quine] |
21694 | Membership conditions which involve membership and non-membership are paradoxical [Quine] |
21692 | If we write it as '"this sentence is false" is false', there is no paradox [Quine] |
4027 | Properties are respects in which particular objects may be alike or differ [Mellor/Oliver] |
4029 | Nominalists ask why we should postulate properties at all [Mellor/Oliver] |
4039 | Abstractions lack causes, effects and spatio-temporal locations [Mellor/Oliver] |
23857 | People in power always try to increase their power [Weil] |
23856 | Spontaneous movements are powerless against organised repression [Weil] |
23859 | True democracy is the subordination of society to the individual [Weil] |
23858 | War is perpetuated by its continual preparations [Weil] |
23860 | Even if a drowning man is doomed, he should keep swimming to the last [Weil] |