9 ideas
20955 | Art can make reason more all-inclusive, by articulating what seemed inexpressible [Bowie] |
15533 | We can quantify over fictions by quantifying for real over their names [Lewis] |
15534 | We could quantify over impossible objects - as bundles of properties [Lewis] |
13007 | Archimedes defined a straight line as the shortest distance between two points [Archimedes, by Leibniz] |
15532 | 'Allists' embrace the existence of all controversial entities; 'noneists' reject all but the obvious ones [Lewis] |
15535 | We can't accept a use of 'existence' that says only some of the things there are actually exist [Lewis] |
20950 | German Idealism says our thinking and nature have the same rational structure [Bowie] |
20942 | Nazis think race predetermines the self [Bowie] |
20946 | Rhetoric is built into language, so it cannot be stripped from philosophy [Bowie] |