16 ideas
13163 | Circles must be bounded, so cannot be infinite [Leibniz] |
8784 | Neo-logicism founds arithmetic on Hume's Principle along with second-order logic [Hale/Wright] |
8787 | The Julius Caesar problem asks for a criterion for the concept of a 'number' [Hale/Wright] |
8788 | Logicism is only noteworthy if logic has a privileged position in our ontology and epistemology [Hale/Wright] |
8783 | Logicism might also be revived with a quantificational approach, or an abstraction-free approach [Hale/Wright] |
19419 | Not all of perception is accompanied by consciousness [Leibniz] |
13162 | Sloth's Syllogism: either it can't happen, or it is inevitable without my effort [Leibniz] |
19421 | Souls act as if there were no bodies, and bodies act as if there were no souls [Leibniz] |
8786 | One first-order abstraction principle is Frege's definition of 'direction' in terms of parallel lines [Hale/Wright] |
19420 | Death and generation are just transformations of an animal, augmented or diminished [Leibniz] |
19416 | Not all of matter is animated, any more than a pond full of living fish is animated [Leibniz] |
19422 | Every particle of matter contains organic bodies [Leibniz] |
19418 | Mechanics shows that all motion originates in other motion, so there is a Prime Mover [Leibniz] |
19417 | All substances are in harmony, even though separate, so they must have one divine cause [Leibniz] |
19339 | Evil is a negation of good, which arises from non-being [Leibniz] |
13164 | God only made sin possible because a much greater good can be derived from it [Leibniz] |