31 ideas
20109 | Hegel inserted society and history between the God-world, man-nature, man-being binary pairs [Hegel, by Safranski] |
10676 | The Axiom of Choice is a non-logical principle of set-theory [Hossack] |
10686 | The Axiom of Choice guarantees a one-one correspondence from sets to ordinals [Hossack] |
10687 | Maybe we reduce sets to ordinals, rather than the other way round [Hossack] |
10677 | Extensional mereology needs two definitions and two axioms [Hossack] |
10671 | Plural definite descriptions pick out the largest class of things that fit the description [Hossack] |
10666 | Plural reference will refer to complex facts without postulating complex things [Hossack] |
10669 | Plural reference is just an abbreviation when properties are distributive, but not otherwise [Hossack] |
10675 | A plural comprehension principle says there are some things one of which meets some condition [Hossack] |
10673 | Plural language can discuss without inconsistency things that are not members of themselves [Hossack] |
10680 | The theory of the transfinite needs the ordinal numbers [Hossack] |
10684 | I take the real numbers to be just lengths [Hossack] |
10674 | A plural language gives a single comprehensive induction axiom for arithmetic [Hossack] |
10681 | In arithmetic singularists need sets as the instantiator of numeric properties [Hossack] |
10685 | Set theory is the science of infinity [Hossack] |
10668 | We are committed to a 'group' of children, if they are sitting in a circle [Hossack] |
10664 | Complex particulars are either masses, or composites, or sets [Hossack] |
10678 | The relation of composition is indispensable to the part-whole relation for individuals [Hossack] |
10665 | Leibniz's Law argues against atomism - water is wet, unlike water molecules [Hossack] |
10682 | The fusion of five rectangles can decompose into more than five parts that are rectangles [Hossack] |
10663 | A thought can refer to many things, but only predicate a universal and affirm a state of affairs [Hossack] |
23274 | World history has no room for happiness [Hegel] |
23275 | The state of nature is one of untamed brutality [Hegel] |
23276 | The soul of the people is an organisation of its members which produces an essential unity [Hegel] |
23272 | The human race matters, and individuals have little importance [Hegel] |
23273 | In a good state the goal of the citizens and of the whole state are united [Hegel] |
23271 | The goal of the world is Spirit's consciousness and enactment of freedom [Hegel] |
23270 | We should all agree that there is reason in history [Hegel] |
1868 | The world was made as much for animals as for man [Celsus] |
10683 | We could ignore space, and just talk of the shape of matter [Hossack] |
1867 | Christians presented Jesus as a new kind of logos to oppose that of the philosophers [Celsus] |