6 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] |
| 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] |
| 8209 | Part of the folk concept of qualia is what makes recognition and comparison possible [Lewis] |
| 21097 | Modern monarchies are (like republics) rule by law, rather than by men [Hume] |