9 ideas
20768 | Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
8755 | Maddy replaces pure sets with just objects and perceived sets of objects [Maddy, by Shapiro] |
10718 | A natural number is a property of sets [Maddy, by Oliver] |
8756 | Intuition doesn't support much mathematics, and we should question its reliability [Maddy, by Shapiro] |
17733 | We know mind-independent mathematical truths through sets, which rest on experience [Maddy, by Jenkins] |
5060 | All substances analyse down to simple substances, which are souls, or 'monads' [Leibniz] |
3049 | The chief good is indifference to what lies midway between virtue and vice [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
3549 | Ariston says rules are useless for the virtuous and the non-virtuous [Ariston, by Annas] |
5059 | Power rules in efficient causes, but wisdom rules in connecting them to final causes [Leibniz] |