7 ideas
22026 | Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis] |
9935 | Mathematical truth is always compromising between ordinary language and sensible epistemology [Benacerraf] |
3338 | Numbers have been defined in terms of 'successors' to the concept of 'zero' [Peano, by Blackburn] |
5897 | 0 is a non-successor number, all successors are numbers, successors can't duplicate, if P(n) and P(n+1) then P(all-n) [Peano, by Flew] |
17927 | Realists have semantics without epistemology, anti-realists epistemology but bad semantics [Benacerraf, by Colyvan] |
9936 | The platonist view of mathematics doesn't fit our epistemology very well [Benacerraf] |
19591 | Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis] |