10 ideas
19426 | 'Nominal' definitions just list distinguishing characteristics [Leibniz] |
10152 | Set theory and logic are fairy tales, but still worth studying [Tarski] |
10151 | I am a deeply convinced nominalist [Tarski] |
23647 | Objects have an essential constitution, producing its qualities, which we are too ignorant to define [Reid] |
11958 | Impossibilites are easily conceived in mathematics and geometry [Reid, by Molnar] |
19424 | Knowledge needs clarity, distinctness, and adequacy, and it should be intuitive [Leibniz] |
19427 | True ideas represent what is possible; false ideas represent contradictions [Leibniz] |
23646 | Reference is by name, or a term-plus-circumstance, or ostensively, or by description [Reid] |
23645 | A word's meaning is the thing conceived, as fixed by linguistic experts [Reid] |
19425 | In the schools the Four Causes are just lumped together in a very obscure way [Leibniz] |