14 ideas
9978 | Analytic philosophy focuses too much on forms of expression, instead of what is actually said [Tait] |
9986 | The null set was doubted, because numbering seemed to require 'units' [Tait] |
9984 | We can have a series with identical members [Tait] |
13416 | Mathematics must be based on axioms, which are true because they are axioms, not vice versa [Tait, by Parsons,C] |
6027 | From the fact that some men die, we cannot infer that they all do [Philodemus] |
9981 | Abstraction is 'logical' if the sense and truth of the abstraction depend on the concrete [Tait] |
9982 | Cantor and Dedekind use abstraction to fix grammar and objects, not to carry out proofs [Tait] |
9985 | Abstraction may concern the individuation of the set itself, not its elements [Tait] |
9972 | Why should abstraction from two equipollent sets lead to the same set of 'pure units'? [Tait] |
9980 | If abstraction produces power sets, their identity should imply identity of the originals [Tait] |
22241 | Don't fear god or worry about death; the good is easily got and the terrible easily cured [Philodemus] |
7506 | God made man in his own image [Anon (Tor)] |
16782 | The names of all the types of creature were given forever by Adam [Anon (Tor)] |
4013 | And God saw the light, that it was good [Anon (Tor)] |