6 ideas
15938 | Platonists ruin infinity, which is precisely a growing structure which is never completed [Dummett] |
15939 | For intuitionists it is constructed proofs (which take time) which make statements true [Dummett] |
13230 | Particular essence is often captured by generality [Steiner,M] |
13229 | Maybe an instance of a generalisation is more explanatory than the particular case [Steiner,M] |
13231 | Explanatory proofs rest on 'characterizing properties' of entities or structure [Steiner,M] |
19414 | Men are related to animals, which are related to plants, then to fossils, and then to the apparently inert [Leibniz] |