10 ideas
18261 | A simplification which is complete constitutes a definition [Kant] |
9616 | A set is a collection into a whole of distinct objects of our intuition or thought [Cantor] |
22275 | Logic gives us the necessary rules which show us how we ought to think [Kant] |
15896 | Cantor needed Power Set for the reals, but then couldn't count the new collections [Cantor, by Lavine] |
11993 | Jones may cease to exist without some simple property, but that doesn't make it essential [Kung] |
11997 | A property may belong essentially to one thing and contingently to another [Kung] |
11992 | Aristotelian essences underlie a thing's existence, explain it, and must belong to it [Kung] |
18260 | If we knew what we know, we would be astonished [Kant] |
11995 | Some peripheral properties are explained by essential ones, but don't themselves explain properties [Kung] |
11996 | Some non-essential properties may explain more than essential-but-peripheral ones do [Kung] |