10 ideas
19426 | 'Nominal' definitions just list distinguishing characteristics [Leibniz] |
17990 | Instances of minimal truth miss out propositions inexpressible in current English [Hofweber] |
17988 | Quantification can't all be substitutional; some reference is obviously to objects [Hofweber] |
17989 | Since properties have properties, there can be a typed or a type-free theory of them [Hofweber] |
19424 | Knowledge needs clarity, distinctness, and adequacy, and it should be intuitive [Leibniz] |
7458 | The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking] |
3441 | If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace] |
19427 | True ideas represent what is possible; false ideas represent contradictions [Leibniz] |
17991 | Holism says language can't be translated; the expressibility hypothesis says everything can [Hofweber] |
19425 | In the schools the Four Causes are just lumped together in a very obscure way [Leibniz] |