10 ideas
9944 | We understand some statements about all sets [Putnam] |
9937 | I do not believe mathematics either has or needs 'foundations' [Putnam] |
9939 | It is conceivable that the axioms of arithmetic or propositional logic might be changed [Putnam] |
9940 | Maybe mathematics is empirical in that we could try to change it [Putnam] |
9941 | Science requires more than consistency of mathematics [Putnam] |
19400 | Possibles demand existence, so as many of them as possible must actually exist [Leibniz] |
19401 | God's sufficient reason for choosing reality is in the fitness or perfection of possibilities [Leibniz] |
9943 | You can't deny a hypothesis a truth-value simply because we may never know it! [Putnam] |
19402 | The actual universe is the richest composite of what is possible [Leibniz] |
19739 | The maxim for suicide is committed to the value of life, and is thus contradictory [Kant] |