7 ideas
8208 | In arithmetic, ratios, negatives, irrationals and imaginaries were created in order to generalise [Quine] |
8207 | The quest for simplicity drove scientists to posit new entities, such as molecules in gases [Quine] |
7334 | Anti-realism needs an intuitionist logic with no law of excluded middle [Dummett, by Miller,A] |
8205 | Explaining events just by bodies can't explain two events identical in space-time [Quine] |
3303 | For anti-realists there are no natural distinctions between objects [Dummett, by Benardete,JA] |
22628 | Substance has to exist, with no intrinsic qualities or relations [McTaggart] |
8206 | Necessity could be just generalisation over classes, or (maybe) quantifying over possibilia [Quine] |