13 ideas
18270 | Choice suggests that intensions are not needed to ensure classes [Coffa] |
10502 | We can rise by degrees through abstraction, with higher levels representing more things [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P] |
18263 | The semantic tradition aimed to explain the a priori semantically, not by Kantian intuition [Coffa] |
18272 | Platonism defines the a priori in a way that makes it unknowable [Coffa] |
18258 | We can only know the exterior world via our ideas [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P] |
16784 | Forms make things distinct and explain the properties, by pure form, or arrangement of parts [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P] |
10499 | We know by abstraction because we only understand composite things a part at a time [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P] |
10501 | A triangle diagram is about all triangles, if some features are ignored [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P] |
18266 | Mathematics generalises by using variables [Coffa] |
10500 | No one denies that a line has width, but we can just attend to its length [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
18279 | Relativity is as absolutist about space-time as Newton was about space [Coffa] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |