13 ideas
21697 | The Struthionic Fallacy is that of burying one's head in the sand [Quine] |
17610 | The Axiom of Choice paradoxically allows decomposing a sphere into two identical spheres [Maddy] |
17620 | Critics of if-thenism say that not all starting points, even consistent ones, are worth studying [Maddy] |
21698 | All relations, apart from ancestrals, can be reduced to simpler logic [Quine] |
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] |
8203 | All the arithmetical entities can be reduced to classes of integers, and hence to sets [Quine] |
21696 | Nominalism rejects both attributes and classes (where extensionalism accepts the classes) [Quine] |
17614 | The connection of arithmetic to perception has been idealised away in modern infinitary mathematics [Maddy] |
8202 | Meaning is essence divorced from things and wedded to words [Quine] |
8201 | The distinction between meaning and further information is as vague as the essence/accident distinction [Quine] |