10 ideas
22361 | Contextual values are acceptable in research, but not in its final evaluation [Reichenbach, by Reiss/Sprenger] |
18270 | Choice suggests that intensions are not needed to ensure classes [Coffa] |
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] |
18278 | Kant showed that our perceptions are partly constructed from our concepts [Reichenbach] |
20653 | Six reduction levels: groups, lives, cells, molecules, atoms, particles [Putnam/Oppenheim, by Watson] |
18266 | Mathematics generalises by using variables [Coffa] |
8410 | A theory of causal relations yields an asymmetry which defines the direction of time [Reichenbach, by Salmon] |
18279 | Relativity is as absolutist about space-time as Newton was about space [Coffa] |
14935 | The direction of time is grounded in the direction of causation [Reichenbach, by Ladyman/Ross] |