21 ideas
12129 | 'Truth' may only apply within a theory [Kuhn] |
22180 | Multiple realisability is said to make reduction impossible [Okasha] |
12887 | A whole must have one characteristic, an internal relation, and a structure [Rescher/Oppenheim] |
22177 | Randomised Control Trials have a treatment and a control group, chosen at random [Okasha] |
22172 | Not all sciences are experimental; astronomy relies on careful observation [Okasha] |
18076 | Most theories are continually falsified [Kuhn, by Kitcher] |
22191 | Kuhn's scientists don't aim to falsifying their paradigm, because that is what they rely on [Kuhn, by Gorham] |
22174 | The discoverers of Neptune didn't change their theory because of an anomaly [Okasha] |
22175 | Science mostly aims at confirming theories, rather than falsifying them [Okasha] |
6809 | Kuhn came to accept that all scientists agree on a particular set of values [Kuhn, by Bird] |
22182 | Theories with unobservables are underdetermined by the evidence [Okasha] |
22183 | Switching scientific paradigms is a conversion experience [Kuhn] |
6162 | Kuhn has a description theory of reference, so the reference of 'electron' changes with the descriptions [Rowlands on Kuhn] |
22184 | Incommensurability assumes concepts get their meaning from within the theory [Kuhn, by Okasha] |
7619 | Galileo's notions can't be 'incommensurable' if we can fully describe them [Putnam on Kuhn] |
12128 | In theory change, words shift their natural reference, so the theories are incommensurable [Kuhn] |
22185 | Two things can't be incompatible if they are incommensurable [Okasha] |
22176 | Induction is inferences from examined to unexamined instances of a given kind [Okasha] |
22178 | If the rules only concern changes of belief, and not the starting point, absurd views can look ratiional [Okasha] |
22173 | Galileo refuted the Aristotelian theory that heavier objects fall faster [Okasha] |
17366 | Virtually all modern views of speciation rest on relational rather than intrinsic features [Okasha] |