9 ideas
9182 | Ancient names like 'Obadiah' depend on tradition, not on where the name originated [Dummett] |
13489 | Von Neumann treated cardinals as a special sort of ordinal [Neumann, by Hart,WD] |
12336 | A von Neumann ordinal is a transitive set with transitive elements [Neumann, by Badiou] |
18179 | For Von Neumann the successor of n is n U {n} (rather than {n}) [Neumann, by Maddy] |
18180 | Von Neumann numbers are preferred, because they continue into the transfinite [Maddy on Neumann] |
15925 | Each Von Neumann ordinal number is the set of its predecessors [Neumann, by Lavine] |
1757 | The Electra: she knows this man, but not that he is her brother [Eucleides, by Diog. Laertius] |
9181 | The causal theory of reference can't distinguish just hearing a name from knowing its use [Dummett] |
3028 | The chief good is unity, sometimes seen as prudence, or God, or intellect [Eucleides] |