10 ideas
10245 | One geometry cannot be more true than another [Poincaré] |
15923 | Poincaré rejected the actual infinite, claiming definitions gave apparent infinity to finite objects [Poincaré, by Lavine] |
10180 | Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects [Poincaré] |
9916 | Convention, yes! Arbitrary, no! [Poincaré, by Putnam] |
18203 | Avoid non-predicative classifications and definitions [Poincaré] |
22745 | Pherecydes said the first principle and element is earth [Pherecydes, by Sext.Empiricus] |
15877 | The aim of science is just to create a comprehensive, elegant language to describe brute facts [Poincaré, by Harré] |
20696 | We can approach knowledge of God by negative attributes [Maimonides] |
19085 | Thinking of God as resembling humans results from a bad translation of Genesis 1:26 [Maimonides] |
5883 | Pherecydes was the first to say that the soul is eternal [Pherecydes, by Cicero] |