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] |
8205 | Explaining events just by bodies can't explain two events identical in space-time [Quine] |
8206 | Necessity could be just generalisation over classes, or (maybe) quantifying over possibilia [Quine] |
6649 | Chomsky now says concepts are basically innate, as well as syntax [Chomsky, by Lowe] |
20057 | Philosophy of action studies the roles of psychological states in causing behaviour [Mele] |