14 ideas
22138 | Science rests on scholastic metaphysics, not on Hume, Kant or Carnap [Boulter] |
22134 | Thoughts are general, but the world isn't, so how can we think accurately? [Boulter] |
23647 | Objects have an essential constitution, producing its qualities, which we are too ignorant to define [Reid] |
579 | Cratylus said you couldn't even step into the same river once [Cratylus, by Aristotle] |
22150 | Logical possibility needs the concepts of the proposition to be adequate [Boulter] |
11958 | Impossibilites are easily conceived in mathematics and geometry [Reid, by Molnar] |
578 | Cratylus decided speech was hopeless, and his only expression was the movement of a finger [Cratylus, by Aristotle] |
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] |
23646 | Reference is by name, or a term-plus-circumstance, or ostensively, or by description [Reid] |
23645 | A word's meaning is the thing conceived, as fixed by linguistic experts [Reid] |
22152 | Aristotelians accept the analytic-synthetic distinction [Boulter] |
22156 | The facts about human health are the measure of the values in our lives [Boulter] |