8 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] |
16635 | Incorporeal substances are powers or forces [Descartes, by Pasnau] |
8206 | Necessity could be just generalisation over classes, or (maybe) quantifying over possibilia [Quine] |
13766 | 'If' is the same as 'given that', so the degrees of belief should conform to probability theory [Ramsey, by Ramsey] |
19143 | Ramsey gave axioms for an uncertain agent to decide their preferences [Ramsey, by Davidson] |
16684 | Impenetrability only belongs to the essence of extension [Descartes] |