11 ideas
22764 | Ordinary speech is not exact about what is true; we say we are digging a well before the well exists [Sext.Empiricus] |
9148 | I think of variables as objects rather than as signs [Fine,K] |
22762 | Some properties are inseparable from a thing, such as the length, breadth and depth of a body [Sext.Empiricus] |
22759 | Fools, infants and madmen may speak truly, but do not know [Sext.Empiricus] |
22760 | Madmen are reliable reporters of what appears to them [Sext.Empiricus] |
5960 | When the soul is intelligent and harmonious, it is part of god and derives from god [Plutarch] |
9152 | If green is abstracted from a thing, it is only seen as a type if it is common to many things [Fine,K] |
22763 | We can only dream of a winged man if we have experienced men and some winged thing [Sext.Empiricus] |
9149 | To obtain the number 2 by abstraction, we only want to abstract the distinctness of a pair of objects [Fine,K] |
9150 | We should define abstraction in general, with number abstraction taken as a special case [Fine,K] |
9146 | After abstraction all numbers seem identical, so only 0 and 1 will exist! [Fine,K] |