10 ideas
22026 | Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis] |
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] |
19591 | Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis] |
8861 | Hardly a word in the language is devoid of metaphorical potential [Yablo] |
22086 | The most important aspect of a human being is not reason, but passion [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle] |