7 ideas
18270 | Choice suggests that intensions are not needed to ensure classes [Coffa] |
18198 | Mathematics is part of science; transfinite mathematics I take as mostly uninterpreted [Quine] |
18263 | The semantic tradition aimed to explain the a priori semantically, not by Kantian intuition [Coffa] |
18272 | Platonism defines the a priori in a way that makes it unknowable [Coffa] |
18284 | Particulars can be verified or falsified, but general statements can only be falsified (conclusively) [Popper] |
18266 | Mathematics generalises by using variables [Coffa] |
18279 | Relativity is as absolutist about space-time as Newton was about space [Coffa] |