16 ideas
7068 | If infatuation with science leads to bad scientism, its rejection leads to obscurantism [Critchley] |
7075 | To meet the division in our life, try the Subject, Nature, Spirit, Will, Power, Praxis, Unconscious, or Being [Critchley] |
7069 | The French keep returning, to Hegel or Nietzsche or Marx [Critchley] |
22180 | Multiple realisability is said to make reduction impossible [Okasha] |
22172 | Not all sciences are experimental; astronomy relies on careful observation [Okasha] |
22177 | Randomised Control Trials have a treatment and a control group, chosen at random [Okasha] |
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] |
22182 | Theories with unobservables are underdetermined by the evidence [Okasha] |
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] |
7067 | Food first, then ethics [Critchley] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
22173 | Galileo refuted the Aristotelian theory that heavier objects fall faster [Okasha] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |