12 ideas
472 | No things would be clear to us as entity or relationships unless there existed Number and its essence [Philolaus] |
14590 | If we accept scattered objects such as archipelagos, why not think of cars that way? [Hawthorne] |
14591 | Four-dimensionalists say instantaneous objects are more fundamental than long-lived ones [Hawthorne] |
14589 | A modal can reverse meaning if the context is seen differently, so maybe context is all? [Hawthorne] |
19216 | Propositions (such as 'that dog is barking') only exist if their items exist [Williamson] |
473 | There is no falsehood in harmony and number, only in irrational things [Philolaus] |
1519 | Harmony must pre-exist the cosmos, to bring the dissimilar sources together [Philolaus] |
1518 | Everything must involve numbers, or it couldn't be thought about or known [Philolaus] |
469 | Existing things, and hence the Cosmos, are a mixture of the Limited and the Unlimited [Philolaus] |
476 | Self-created numbers make the universe stable [Philolaus] |
14588 | Modern metaphysicians tend to think space-time points are more fundamental than space-time regions [Hawthorne] |
1787 | Philolaus was the first person to say the earth moves in a circle [Philolaus, by Diog. Laertius] |