10 ideas
15527 | Defining terms either enables elimination, or shows that they don't require elimination [Lewis] |
17832 | Zermelo showed that the ZF axioms in 1930 were non-categorical [Zermelo, by Hallett,M] |
13028 | Replacement was added when some advanced theorems seemed to need it [Zermelo, by Maddy] |
17626 | The antinomy of endless advance and of completion is resolved in well-ordered transfinite numbers [Zermelo] |
15530 | A logically determinate name names the same thing in every possible world [Lewis] |
15531 | The Ramsey sentence of a theory says that it has at least one realisation [Lewis] |
15528 | A Ramsey sentence just asserts that a theory can be realised, without saying by what [Lewis] |
15526 | There is a method for defining new scientific terms just using the terms we already understand [Lewis] |
15529 | It is better to have one realisation of a theory than many - but it may not always be possible [Lewis] |
6011 | There is a remote first god (the Good), and a second god who organises the material world [Numenius, by O'Meara] |