15 ideas
15375 | If terms change their designations in different states, they are functions from states to objects [Fitting] |
15376 | Intensional logic adds a second type of quantification, over intensional objects, or individual concepts [Fitting] |
15378 | Awareness logic adds the restriction of an awareness function to epistemic logic [Fitting] |
15379 | Justication logics make explicit the reasons for mathematical truth in proofs [Fitting] |
17610 | The Axiom of Choice paradoxically allows decomposing a sphere into two identical spheres [Maddy] |
11026 | Classical logic is deliberately extensional, in order to model mathematics [Fitting] |
17620 | Critics of if-thenism say that not all starting points, even consistent ones, are worth studying [Maddy] |
11028 | λ-abstraction disambiguates the scope of modal operators [Fitting] |
17605 | Hilbert's geometry and Dedekind's real numbers were role models for axiomatization [Maddy] |
17625 | If two mathematical themes coincide, that suggest a single deep truth [Maddy] |
17615 | Every infinite set of reals is either countable or of the same size as the full set of reals [Maddy] |
17618 | Set-theory tracks the contours of mathematical depth and fruitfulness [Maddy] |
17614 | The connection of arithmetic to perception has been idealised away in modern infinitary mathematics [Maddy] |
3016 | Even the gods cannot strive against necessity [Pittacus, by Diog. Laertius] |
15377 | Definite descriptions pick out different objects in different possible worlds [Fitting] |