5 ideas
15785 | Our commitments are to an 'ontology', but also to an 'ideology', or conceptual system [Hintikka] |
12887 | A whole must have one characteristic, an internal relation, and a structure [Rescher/Oppenheim] |
15786 | Commitment to possible worlds is part of our ideology, not part of our ontology [Hintikka] |
7458 | The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking] |
3441 | If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace] |