9 ideas
19086 | Does the pragmatic theory of meaning support objective truth, or make it impossible? [Macbeth] |
19093 | Greek mathematics is wholly sensory, where ours is wholly inferential [Macbeth] |
16678 | Without magnitude a thing would retain its parts, but they would have no location [Buridan] |
16793 | A thing is (less properly) the same over time if each part is succeeded by another [Buridan] |
16577 | Induction is not demonstration, because not all of the instances can be observed [Buridan] |
19091 | Seeing reality mathematically makes it an object of thought, not of experience [Macbeth] |
16576 | Science is based on induction, for general truths about fire, rhubarb and magnets [Buridan] |
19088 | For pragmatists a concept means its consequences [Macbeth] |
4422 | The end need not be the goal, as in the playing of a melody (and yet it must be completed) [Nietzsche] |