6 ideas
23367 | Even pointing a finger should only be done for a reason [Epictetus] |
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] |
12735 | Everything has a fixed power, as required by God, and by the possibility of reasoning [Leibniz] |
8206 | Necessity could be just generalisation over classes, or (maybe) quantifying over possibilia [Quine] |