11 ideas
22138 | Science rests on scholastic metaphysics, not on Hume, Kant or Carnap [Boulter] |
20660 | At one level maths and nature are very similar, suggesting some deeper origin [Wolfram] |
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] |
22136 | Science begins with sufficient reason, de-animation, and the importance of nature [Boulter] |
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] |
20659 | Space and its contents seem to be one stuff - so space is the only existing thing [Wolfram] |