5 ideas
17807 | To study formal systems, look at the whole thing, and not just how it is constructed in steps [Curry] |
13007 | Archimedes defined a straight line as the shortest distance between two points [Archimedes, by Leibniz] |
17806 | It is untenable that mathematics is general physical truths, because it needs infinity [Curry] |
17808 | Saying mathematics is logic is merely replacing one undefined term by another [Curry] |
3214 | The models we use in reasoning may be more like perceptions than like language [Johnson-Laird] |