9 ideas
8207 | The quest for simplicity drove scientists to posit new entities, such as molecules in gases [Quine] |
8208 | In arithmetic, ratios, negatives, irrationals and imaginaries were created in order to generalise [Quine] |
10242 | I apply structuralism to concrete and abstract objects indiscriminately [Quine] |
19400 | Possibles demand existence, so as many of them as possible must actually exist [Leibniz] |
19401 | God's sufficient reason for choosing reality is in the fitness or perfection of possibilities [Leibniz] |
8205 | Explaining events just by bodies can't explain two events identical in space-time [Quine] |
10243 | My ontology is quarks etc., classes of such things, classes of such classes etc. [Quine] |
8206 | Necessity could be just generalisation over classes, or (maybe) quantifying over possibilia [Quine] |
19402 | The actual universe is the richest composite of what is possible [Leibniz] |