22 ideas
22138 | Science rests on scholastic metaphysics, not on Hume, Kant or Carnap [Boulter] |
17596 | Coherence problems have positive and negative restraints; solutions maximise constraint satisfaction [Thagard] |
17597 | Coherence is explanatory, deductive, conceptual, analogical, perceptual, and deliberative [Thagard] |
17598 | Explanatory coherence needs symmetry,explanation,analogy,data priority, contradiction,competition,acceptance [Thagard] |
17602 | Verisimilitude comes from including more phenomena, and revealing what underlies [Thagard] |
22134 | Thoughts are general, but the world isn't, so how can we think accurately? [Boulter] |
12887 | A whole must have one characteristic, an internal relation, and a structure [Rescher/Oppenheim] |
22150 | Logical possibility needs the concepts of the proposition to be adequate [Boulter] |
22139 | Experiments don't just observe; they look to see what interventions change the natural order [Boulter] |
17601 | Neither a priori rationalism nor sense data empiricism account for scientific knowledge [Thagard] |
22136 | Science begins with sufficient reason, de-animation, and the importance of nature [Boulter] |
17600 | Bayesian inference is forced to rely on approximations [Thagard] |
17064 | 1: Coherence is a symmetrical relation between two propositions [Thagard, by Smart] |
17065 | 2: An explanation must wholly cohere internally, and with the new fact [Thagard, by Smart] |
17066 | 3: If an analogous pair explain another analogous pair, then they all cohere [Thagard, by Smart] |
17067 | 4: For coherence, observation reports have a degree of intrinsic acceptability [Thagard, by Smart] |
17068 | 5: Contradictory propositions incohere [Thagard, by Smart] |
17069 | 6: A proposition's acceptability depends on its coherence with a system [Thagard, by Smart] |
17599 | The best theory has the highest subjective (Bayesian) probability? [Thagard] |
22135 | Our concepts can never fully capture reality, but simplification does not falsify [Boulter] |
22152 | Aristotelians accept the analytic-synthetic distinction [Boulter] |
22156 | The facts about human health are the measure of the values in our lives [Boulter] |