8 ideas
10855 | Actual infinities are not allowed in mathematics - only limits which may increase without bound [Gauss] |
16007 | I assume existence, rather than reasoning towards it [Kierkegaard] |
14217 | The 'standard' view of relations is that they hold of several objects in a given order [Fine,K] |
14216 | The 'positionalist' view of relations says the number of places is fixed, but not the order [Fine,K] |
14218 | A block on top of another contains one relation, not both 'on top of' and 'beneath' [Fine,K] |
14219 | Language imposes a direction on a road which is not really part of the road [Fine,K] |
14220 | Explain biased relations as orderings of the unbiased, or the unbiased as permutation classes of the biased? [Fine,K] |
16013 | Nothing necessary can come into existence, since it already 'is' [Kierkegaard] |