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] |
18170 | The Axiom of Reducibility is self-effacing: if true, it isn't needed [Quine] |
8205 | Explaining events just by bodies can't explain two events identical in space-time [Quine] |
8206 | Necessity could be just generalisation over classes, or (maybe) quantifying over possibilia [Quine] |
295 | The good is beautiful [Plato] |
294 | People say that friendship exists only between good men [Plato] |