9 ideas
8964 | Entities can be multiplied either by excessive categories, or excessive entities within a category [Hoffman/Rosenkrantz] |
18281 | In mathematics everything is algorithm and nothing is meaning [Wittgenstein] |
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] |
22320 | An 'object' is just what can be referred to without possible non-existence [Wittgenstein] |
8963 | Four theories of possible worlds: conceptualist, combinatorial, abstract, or concrete [Hoffman/Rosenkrantz] |
18283 | Language pictures the essence of the world [Wittgenstein] |
18282 | You can't believe it if you can't imagine a verification for it [Wittgenstein] |
6606 | Consider: "Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful" [Wittgenstein] |