5 ideas
19053 | Logic would be more natural if negation only referred to predicates [Dummett] |
19052 | Natural language 'not' doesn't apply to sentences [Dummett] |
21687 | It seems obvious to prefer the simpler of two theories, on grounds of beauty and convenience [Quine] |
21688 | There are four suspicious reasons why we prefer simpler theories [Quine] |
20239 | Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche] |