15 ideas
13011 | New axioms are being sought, to determine the size of the continuum [Maddy] |
13013 | The Axiom of Extensionality seems to be analytic [Maddy] |
13014 | Extensional sets are clearer, simpler, unique and expressive [Maddy] |
13021 | The Axiom of Infinity states Cantor's breakthrough that launched modern mathematics [Maddy] |
13022 | Infinite sets are essential for giving an account of the real numbers [Maddy] |
13023 | The Power Set Axiom is needed for, and supported by, accounts of the continuum [Maddy] |
13024 | Efforts to prove the Axiom of Choice have failed [Maddy] |
13025 | Modern views say the Choice set exists, even if it can't be constructed [Maddy] |
13026 | A large array of theorems depend on the Axiom of Choice [Maddy] |
13019 | The Iterative Conception says everything appears at a stage, derived from the preceding appearances [Maddy] |
13018 | Limitation of Size is a vague intuition that over-large sets may generate paradoxes [Maddy] |
13432 | The essence of a circle is the equality of its radii [Leibniz] |
5121 | Basing ethics on flourishing makes it consequentialist, as actions are judged by contributing to it [Harman] |
5120 | What counts as 'flourishing' must be relative to various sets of values [Harman] |
12696 | Bodies are recreated in motion, and don't exist in intervening instants [Leibniz] |