Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Through the Looking Glass', 'Letters to Edward Stillingfleet' and 'Lecture on Nominalism'

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

---

6 ideas

2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 1. Fallacy

21697

The Struthionic Fallacy is that of burying one's head in the sand [Quine]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 6. Relations in Logic

21698

All relations, apart from ancestrals, can be reduced to simpler logic [Quine]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 3. Mathematical Nominalism

21696

Nominalism rejects both attributes and classes (where extensionalism accepts the classes) [Quine]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing

21982

I only wish I had such eyes as to see Nobody! It's as much as I can do to see real people. [Carroll,L]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences

15990

Every individual thing which exists has an essence, which is its internal constitution [Locke]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty

15994

If it is knowledge, it is certain; if it isn't certain, it isn't knowledge [Locke]