8 ideas
10528 | Definitions concern how we should speak, not how things are [Fine,K] |
10529 | If Hume's Principle can define numbers, we needn't worry about its truth [Fine,K] |
10530 | Hume's Principle is either adequate for number but fails to define properly, or vice versa [Fine,K] |
13165 | Geometrical proofs do not show causes, as when we prove a triangle contains two right angles [Proclus] |
22419 | 'I' is a subject in 'I am in pain' and an object in 'I am bleeding' [Wittgenstein, by McGinn] |
9569 | The origin of geometry started in sensation, then moved to calculation, and then to reason [Proclus] |
10527 | An abstraction principle should not 'inflate', producing more abstractions than objects [Fine,K] |
6318 | The doctrine of indeterminacy of translation seems implied by the later Wittgenstein [Wittgenstein, by Quine] |