8 ideas
8964 | Entities can be multiplied either by excessive categories, or excessive entities within a category [Hoffman/Rosenkrantz] |
10855 | Actual infinities are not allowed in mathematics - only limits which may increase without bound [Gauss] |
8962 | 'There are shapes which are never exemplified' is the toughest example for nominalists [Hoffman/Rosenkrantz] |
8961 | Nominalists are motivated by Ockham's Razor and a distrust of unobservables [Hoffman/Rosenkrantz] |
8963 | Four theories of possible worlds: conceptualist, combinatorial, abstract, or concrete [Hoffman/Rosenkrantz] |
6000 | The goal is rationality in the selection of things according to nature [Diogenes of Babylon, by Blank] |
5999 | The good is what is perfect by nature [Diogenes of Babylon, by Blank] |
6001 | Justice is a disposition to distribute according to desert [Diogenes of Babylon, by Blank] |