8 ideas
7500 | Early Greeks cared about city and companions; later Greeks concentrated on the self [Foucault] |
17833 | The first-order ZF axiomatisation is highly non-categorical [Hallett,M] |
17834 | Non-categoricity reveals a sort of incompleteness, with sets existing that the axioms don't reveal [Hallett,M] |
17837 | Zermelo allows ur-elements, to enable the widespread application of set-theory [Hallett,M] |
17836 | The General Continuum Hypothesis and its negation are both consistent with ZF [Hallett,M] |
3016 | Even the gods cannot strive against necessity [Pittacus, by Diog. Laertius] |
7501 | Why couldn't a person's life become a work of art? [Foucault] |
7498 | Greeks and early Christians were much more concerned about food than about sex [Foucault] |