8 ideas
9148 | I think of variables as objects rather than as signs [Fine,K] |
19494 | Fictionalism allows that simulated beliefs may be tracking real facts [Yablo] |
19493 | Governing possible worlds theory is the fiction that if something is possible, it happens in a world [Yablo] |
9152 | If green is abstracted from a thing, it is only seen as a type if it is common to many things [Fine,K] |
9149 | To obtain the number 2 by abstraction, we only want to abstract the distinctness of a pair of objects [Fine,K] |
9150 | We should define abstraction in general, with number abstraction taken as a special case [Fine,K] |
9146 | After abstraction all numbers seem identical, so only 0 and 1 will exist! [Fine,K] |
7667 | There are two sides to men - the pleasantly social, and the violent and creative [Diderot, by Berlin] |