10 ideas
19426 | 'Nominal' definitions just list distinguishing characteristics [Leibniz] |
8983 | If 'red' is vague, then membership of the set of red things is vague, so there is no set of red things [Sainsbury] |
8986 | We should abandon classifying by pigeon-holes, and classify around paradigms [Sainsbury] |
8982 | Vague concepts are concepts without boundaries [Sainsbury] |
8984 | If concepts are vague, people avoid boundaries, can't spot them, and don't want them [Sainsbury] |
8985 | Boundaryless concepts tend to come in pairs, such as child/adult, hot/cold [Sainsbury] |
3016 | Even the gods cannot strive against necessity [Pittacus, by Diog. Laertius] |
19424 | Knowledge needs clarity, distinctness, and adequacy, and it should be intuitive [Leibniz] |
19427 | True ideas represent what is possible; false ideas represent contradictions [Leibniz] |
19425 | In the schools the Four Causes are just lumped together in a very obscure way [Leibniz] |