26 ideas
16185 | Causality indicates which properties are real [Cartwright,N] |
15959 | If the substantial form of brass implies its stability, how can it melt and remain brass? [Alexander,P] |
15956 | The peripatetics treated forms and real qualities as independent of matter, and non-material [Alexander,P] |
17503 | Theories can never represent accurately, because their components are abstract [Cartwright,N, by Portides] |
16182 | Two main types of explanation are by causes, or by citing a theoretical framework [Cartwright,N] |
16184 | An explanation is a model that fits a theory and predicts the phenomenological laws [Cartwright,N] |
16167 | Laws get the facts wrong, and explanation rests on improvements and qualifications of laws [Cartwright,N] |
16169 | Laws apply to separate domains, but real explanations apply to intersecting domains [Cartwright,N] |
16176 | Covering-law explanation lets us explain storms by falling barometers [Cartwright,N] |
16177 | I disagree with the covering-law view that there is a law to cover every single case [Cartwright,N] |
16180 | You can't explain one quail's behaviour by just saying that all quails do it [Cartwright,N] |
16171 | The covering law view assumes that each phenomenon has a 'right' explanation [Cartwright,N] |
15975 | Can the qualities of a body be split into two groups, where the smaller explains the larger? [Alexander,P] |
16183 | In science, best explanations have regularly turned out to be false [Cartwright,N] |
15963 | Science has been partly motivated by the belief that the universe is run by God's laws [Alexander,P] |
22745 | Pherecydes said the first principle and element is earth [Pherecydes, by Sext.Empiricus] |
16175 | A cause won't increase the effect frequency if other causes keep interfering [Cartwright,N] |
6781 | There are fundamental explanatory laws (false!), and phenomenological laws (regularities) [Cartwright,N, by Bird] |
16166 | Laws of appearances are 'phenomenological'; laws of reality are 'theoretical' [Cartwright,N] |
16179 | Good organisation may not be true, and the truth may not organise very much [Cartwright,N] |
15951 | Alchemists tried to separate out essences, which influenced later chemistry [Alexander,P] |
16170 | To get from facts to equations, we need a prepared descriptions suited to mathematics [Cartwright,N] |
16181 | Simple laws have quite different outcomes when they act in combinations [Cartwright,N] |
16178 | There are few laws for when one theory meets another [Cartwright,N] |
15981 | Absolute space either provides locations, or exists but lacks 'marks' for locations [Alexander,P] |
5883 | Pherecydes was the first to say that the soul is eternal [Pherecydes, by Cicero] |