8 ideas
7661 | Truth is the opinion fated to be ultimately agreed by all investigators [Peirce] |
8203 | All the arithmetical entities can be reduced to classes of integers, and hence to sets [Quine] |
19089 | Our whole conception of an object is its possible practical consequences [Peirce] |
7660 | We are aware of beliefs, they appease our doubts, and they are rules of action, or habits [Peirce] |
14906 | Non-positivist verificationism says only take a hypothesis seriously if it is scientifically based and testable [Ladyman/Ross on Peirce] |
8202 | Meaning is essence divorced from things and wedded to words [Quine] |
8201 | The distinction between meaning and further information is as vague as the essence/accident distinction [Quine] |
16746 | Principles of things are not hidden features of forms, but the laws by which they were formed [Newton] |