8 ideas
8208 | In arithmetic, ratios, negatives, irrationals and imaginaries were created in order to generalise [Quine] |
8207 | The quest for simplicity drove scientists to posit new entities, such as molecules in gases [Quine] |
18256 | Quantity is inconceivable without the idea of addition [Frege] |
9831 | Geometry appeals to intuition as the source of its axioms [Frege] |
8205 | Explaining events just by bodies can't explain two events identical in space-time [Quine] |
579 | Cratylus said you couldn't even step into the same river once [Cratylus, by Aristotle] |
8206 | Necessity could be just generalisation over classes, or (maybe) quantifying over possibilia [Quine] |
578 | Cratylus decided speech was hopeless, and his only expression was the movement of a finger [Cratylus, by Aristotle] |