10 ideas
12801 | Coherentists seek relations among beliefs that are simple, conservative and explanatory [Foley] |
15642 | If kinds depend only on what can be observed, many underlying essences might produce the same kind [Eagle] |
15645 | Nominal essence are the observable properties of things [Eagle] |
15643 | Nominal essence mistakenly gives equal weight to all underlying properties that produce appearances [Eagle] |
19708 | Rational internal belief is conviction that a proposition enhances a belief system [Foley, by Vahid] |
12800 | Externalists want to understand knowledge, Internalists want to understand justification [Foley] |
12802 | We aren't directly pragmatic about belief, but pragmatic about the deliberation which precedes it [Foley] |
12803 | Justification comes from acceptable procedures, given practical constraints [Foley] |
1497 | For Anaximenes nature is air, which takes different forms by rarefaction and condensation [Anaximenes, by Simplicius] |
15641 | Kinds are fixed by the essential properties of things - the properties that make it that kind of thing [Eagle] |