8 ideas
| 291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
| 8207 | The quest for simplicity drove scientists to posit new entities, such as molecules in gases [Quine] |
| 8208 | In arithmetic, ratios, negatives, irrationals and imaginaries were created in order to generalise [Quine] |
| 18487 | We want to know what makes sentences true, rather than defining 'true' [McFetridge] |
| 8205 | Explaining events just by bodies can't explain two events identical in space-time [Quine] |
| 18488 | We normally explain natural events by citing further facts [McFetridge] |
| 8206 | Necessity could be just generalisation over classes, or (maybe) quantifying over possibilia [Quine] |
| 293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |