6 ideas
6408 | Russell needed three extra axioms to reduce maths to logic: infinity, choice and reducibility [Grayling] |
5060 | All substances analyse down to simple substances, which are souls, or 'monads' [Leibniz] |
6414 | Two propositions might seem self-evident, but contradict one another [Grayling] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
5059 | Power rules in efficient causes, but wisdom rules in connecting them to final causes [Leibniz] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |