9 ideas
14596 | Call 'nominalism' the denial of numbers, properties, relations and sets [Dorr] |
14597 | Natural Class Nominalism says there are primitive classes of things resembling in one respect [Dorr] |
23647 | Objects have an essential constitution, producing its qualities, which we are too ignorant to define [Reid] |
14598 | Abstracta imply non-logical brute necessities, so only nominalists can deny such things [Dorr] |
11958 | Impossibilites are easily conceived in mathematics and geometry [Reid, by Molnar] |
7458 | The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking] |
3441 | If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace] |
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] |