Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Philodemus, Pierre Duhem and Charles Leslie Stevenson

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5 ideas

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 6. Falsification

22137

Observation can force rejection of some part of the initial set of claims [Duhem, by Boulter]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 6. Theory Holism

18197

Experiments only test groups of hypotheses, and can't show which one is wrong [Duhem]

14. Science / C. Induction / 3. Limits of Induction

6027	From the fact that some men die, we cannot infer that they all do [Philodemus]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism

23689

Moral words have an inherited power from expressing attitudes in emotional situations [Stevenson,CL]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues

22241

Don't fear god or worry about death; the good is easily got and the terrible easily cured [Philodemus]