6 ideas
8207 | The quest for simplicity drove scientists to posit new entities, such as molecules in gases [Quine] |
8208 | In arithmetic, ratios, negatives, irrationals and imaginaries were created in order to generalise [Quine] |
10855 | Actual infinities are not allowed in mathematics - only limits which may increase without bound [Gauss] |
8205 | Explaining events just by bodies can't explain two events identical in space-time [Quine] |
6019 | If someone squashed a horse to make a dog, something new would now exist [Mnesarchus] |
8206 | Necessity could be just generalisation over classes, or (maybe) quantifying over possibilia [Quine] |