8 ideas
| 9100 | Our intellect only assents to what we believe to be true [William of Ockham] |
| 18969 | How do you distinguish three beliefs from four beliefs or two beliefs? [Quine] |
| 7458 | The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking] |
| 9101 | Abstractive cognition knows universals abstracted from many singulars [William of Ockham] |
| 3441 | If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace] |
| 18967 | A 'proposition' is said to be the timeless cognitive part of the meaning of a sentence [Quine] |
| 18968 | The problem with propositions is their individuation. When do two sentences express one proposition? [Quine] |
| 18970 | The concept of a 'point' makes no sense without the idea of absolute position [Quine] |