8 ideas
18270 | Choice suggests that intensions are not needed to ensure classes [Coffa] |
18263 | The semantic tradition aimed to explain the a priori semantically, not by Kantian intuition [Coffa] |
18272 | Platonism defines the a priori in a way that makes it unknowable [Coffa] |
7458 | The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking] |
20653 | Six reduction levels: groups, lives, cells, molecules, atoms, particles [Putnam/Oppenheim, by Watson] |
18266 | Mathematics generalises by using variables [Coffa] |
3441 | If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace] |
18279 | Relativity is as absolutist about space-time as Newton was about space [Coffa] |