5 ideas
6782 | Realism is the only philosophy of science that doesn't make the success of science a miracle [Putnam] |
18832 | Mathematical statements and entities that result from an infinite process must lack a truth-value [Dummett] |
18086 | Weierstrass eliminated talk of infinitesimals [Weierstrass, by Kitcher] |
18092 | Weierstrass made limits central, but the existence of limits still needed to be proved [Weierstrass, by Bostock] |
22181 | Putnam says anti-realism is a bad explanation of accurate predictions [Putnam, by Okasha] |