7 ideas
19404 | Necessities rest on contradiction, and contingencies on sufficient reason [Leibniz] |
19489 | For me, fictions are internally true, without a significant internal or external truth-value [Yablo] |
19490 | Make-believe can help us to reason about facts and scientific procedures [Yablo] |
19491 | 'The clouds are angry' can only mean '...if one were attributing emotions to clouds' [Yablo] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
19403 | Each of the infinite possible worlds has its own laws, and the individuals contain those laws [Leibniz] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |