11 ideas
22820 | Early Romantics sought a plurality of systems, in a quest for freedom [Hösle] |
8859 | The main modal logics disagree over three key formulae [Yablo] |
8865 | If 'the number of Democrats is on the rise', does that mean that 50 million is on the rise? [Yablo] |
8863 | We must treat numbers as existing in order to express ourselves about the arrangement of planets [Yablo] |
8862 | Platonic objects are really created as existential metaphors [Yablo] |
8864 | We quantify over events, worlds, etc. in order to make logical possibilities clearer [Yablo] |
8858 | Philosophers keep finding unexpected objects, like models, worlds, functions, numbers, events, sets, properties [Yablo] |
8861 | Hardly a word in the language is devoid of metaphorical potential [Yablo] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
22819 | In the 18th century history came to be seen as progressive, rather than cyclical [Hösle] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |