9 ideas
22153 | Quine rejects Carnap's view that science and philosophy are distinct [Quine, by Boulter] |
15946 | Cantor developed sets from a progression into infinity by addition, multiplication and exponentiation [Cantor, by Lavine] |
15911 | Ordinals are generated by endless succession, followed by a limit ordinal [Cantor, by Lavine] |
19485 | Names have no ontological commitment, because we can deny that they name anything [Quine] |
19486 | We can use quantification for commitment to unnameable things like the real numbers [Quine] |
16634 | I can't be unaware of anything which is in me [Descartes] |
19487 | Without the analytic/synthetic distinction, Carnap's ontology/empirical distinction collapses [Quine] |
3635 | Essence must be known before we discuss existence [Descartes] |
3634 | We can't prove a first cause from our inability to grasp infinity [Descartes] |