6 ideas
10632 | The real numbers may be introduced by abstraction as ratios of quantities [Hale, by Hale/Wright] |
17368 | Essentialism concerns the nature of a group, not its category [Devitt] |
17370 | Things that gradually change, like species, can still have essences [Devitt] |
5845 | Niceratus learnt the whole of Homer by heart, as a guide to goodness [Xenophon] |
17369 | We name species as small to share properties, but large enough to yield generalisations [Devitt] |
17367 | Species are phenetic, biological, niche, or phylogenetic-cladistic [Devitt, by PG] |