8 ideas
10528 | Definitions concern how we should speak, not how things are [Fine,K] |
10529 | If Hume's Principle can define numbers, we needn't worry about its truth [Fine,K] |
10530 | Hume's Principle is either adequate for number but fails to define properly, or vice versa [Fine,K] |
3916 | Hopi consistently prefers verbs and events to nouns and things [Whorf] |
3917 | Scientific thought is essentially a specialised part of Indo-European languages [Whorf] |
10527 | An abstraction principle should not 'inflate', producing more abstractions than objects [Fine,K] |
19399 | Prime matter is nothing when it is at rest [Leibniz] |
3915 | The Hopi have no concept of time as something flowing from past to future [Whorf] |