6 ideas
10180 | Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects [Poincaré] |
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] |
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] |
4784 | Salmon says processes rather than events should be basic in a theory of physical causation [Salmon, by Psillos] |