9 ideas
22104 | Truth is the conformity of being to intellect [Aquinas] |
9944 | We understand some statements about all sets [Putnam] |
9937 | I do not believe mathematics either has or needs 'foundations' [Putnam] |
9939 | It is conceivable that the axioms of arithmetic or propositional logic might be changed [Putnam] |
9940 | Maybe mathematics is empirical in that we could try to change it [Putnam] |
9941 | Science requires more than consistency of mathematics [Putnam] |
22103 | Being is basic to thought, and all other concepts are additions to being [Aquinas] |
9943 | You can't deny a hypothesis a truth-value simply because we may never know it! [Putnam] |
20239 | Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche] |