19 ideas
23449 | Interpreting a text is representing it as making sense [Morris,M] |
10807 | Mathematics reduces to set theory, which reduces, with some mereology, to the singleton function [Lewis] |
10809 | We can accept the null set, but not a null class, a class lacking members [Lewis] |
10811 | The null set plays the role of last resort, for class abstracts and for existence [Lewis] |
10812 | The null set is not a little speck of sheer nothingness, a black hole in Reality [Lewis] |
10813 | What on earth is the relationship between a singleton and an element? [Lewis] |
10814 | Are all singletons exact intrinsic duplicates? [Lewis] |
10806 | Megethology is the result of adding plural quantification to mereology [Lewis] |
23484 | Bipolarity adds to Bivalence the capacity for both truth values [Morris,M] |
10816 | We can use mereology to simulate quantification over relations [Lewis] |
23494 | Conjunctive and disjunctive quantifiers are too specific, and are confined to the finite [Morris,M] |
23451 | Counting needs to distinguish things, and also needs the concept of a successor in a series [Morris,M] |
23460 | To count, we must distinguish things, and have a series with successors in it [Morris,M] |
23452 | Discriminating things for counting implies concepts of identity and distinctness [Morris,M] |
10808 | Mathematics is generalisations about singleton functions [Lewis] |
10815 | We don't need 'abstract structures' to have structural truths about successor functions [Lewis] |
10810 | I say that absolutely any things can have a mereological fusion [Lewis] |
23491 | There must exist a general form of propositions, which are predictabe. It is: such and such is the case [Morris,M] |
16764 | The soul conserves the body, as we see by its dissolution when the soul leaves [Toletus] |