22 ideas
5182 | Claims about 'the Absolute' are not even verifiable in principle [Ayer on Bradley] |
6864 | Metaphysics is finding bad reasons for instinctive beliefs [Bradley] |
13886 | Later Frege held that definitions must fix a function's value for every possible argument [Frege, by Wright,C] |
9845 | We can't define a word by defining an expression containing it, as the remaining parts are a problem [Frege] |
10019 | Only what is logically complex can be defined; what is simple must be pointed to [Frege] |
10999 | Names need a means of reidentifying their referents [Bradley, by Read] |
9886 | Cardinals say how many, and reals give measurements compared to a unit quantity [Frege] |
9889 | Real numbers are ratios of quantities [Frege, by Dummett] |
10553 | A number is a class of classes of the same cardinality [Frege, by Dummett] |
10020 | Frege's biggest error is in not accounting for the senses of number terms [Hodes on Frege] |
9887 | Formalism misunderstands applications, metatheory, and infinity [Frege, by Dummett] |
8751 | Only applicability raises arithmetic from a game to a science [Frege] |
6422 | Internal relations are said to be intrinsic properties of two terms, and of the whole they compose [Bradley, by Russell] |
7966 | Relations must be linked to their qualities, but that implies an infinite regress of relations [Bradley] |
9891 | The first demand of logic is of a sharp boundary [Frege] |
6404 | British Idealists said reality is a single Mind which experiences itself [Bradley, by Grayling] |
22299 | Bradley's objective idealism accepts reality (the Absolute), but says we can't fully describe it [Bradley, by Potter] |
21343 | Qualities and relations are mere appearance; the Absolute is a single undifferentiated substance [Bradley, by Heil] |
9890 | The modern account of real numbers detaches a ratio from its geometrical origins [Frege] |
11846 | If we abstract the difference between two houses, they don't become the same house [Frege] |
7903 | The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna] |
6406 | Reality is one, because plurality implies relations, and they assert a superior unity [Bradley] |