Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Lectures on Ethics', 'Review of Tait 'Provenance of Pure Reason'' and 'Science and Method'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

5 ideas

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / j. Axiom of Choice IX

13418

The old problems with the axiom of choice are probably better ascribed to the law of excluded middle [Parsons,C]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 2. Geometry

10245

One geometry cannot be more true than another [Poincaré]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 8. Finitism

13419

If functions are transfinite objects, finitists can have no conception of them [Parsons,C]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / e. Ontological commitment problems

13417

If a mathematical structure is rejected from a physical theory, it retains its mathematical status [Parsons,C]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 4. Suicide

19739

The maxim for suicide is committed to the value of life, and is thus contradictory [Kant]