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] |
6668 | If the present does not exist, then consciousness must be memory of the immediate past [Marshall] |
7667 | There are two sides to men - the pleasantly social, and the violent and creative [Diderot, by Berlin] |