8 ideas
16676 | Why use more things when fewer will do? [William of Ockham] |
5831 | The new view is that "water" is a name, and has no definition [Schwartz,SP] |
5829 | We refer to Thales successfully by name, even if all descriptions of him are false [Schwartz,SP] |
5830 | The traditional theory of names says some of the descriptions must be correct [Schwartz,SP] |
10486 | If we are rebuilding our ship at sea, we should jettison some cargo [Boolos on Neurath] |
8485 | We must always rebuild our ship on the open sea; we can't reconstruct it properly in dry-dock [Neurath] |
5826 | The intension of "lemon" is the conjunction of properties associated with it [Schwartz,SP] |
16675 | Every extended material substance is composed of parts distant from one another [William of Ockham] |