8 ideas
16415 | Esoteric metaphysics aims to be top science, investigating ultimate reality [Hofweber] |
16413 | Science has discovered properties of things, so there are properties - so who needs metaphysics? [Hofweber] |
16416 | The quantifier in logic is not like the ordinary English one (which has empty names, non-denoting terms etc) [Hofweber] |
17809 | Gödel showed that the syntactic approach to the infinite is of limited value [Kreisel] |
17810 | The study of mathematical foundations needs new non-mathematical concepts [Kreisel] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
17811 | The natural conception of points ducks the problem of naming or constructing each point [Kreisel] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |