19 ideas
17641 | Discoveries in mathematics can challenge philosophy, and offer it a new foundation [Russell] |
12772 | Philosophy is a value- and attitude-driven enterprise [Fraassen] |
12771 | Is it likely that a successful, coherent, explanatory ontological hypothesis is true? [Fraassen] |
12773 | Analytic philosophy has an exceptional arsenal of critical tools [Fraassen] |
17638 | If one proposition is deduced from another, they are more certain together than alone [Russell] |
12770 | We may end up with a huge theory of carefully constructed falsehoods [Fraassen] |
17632 | Non-contradiction was learned from instances, and then found to be indubitable [Russell] |
17640 | Finding the axioms may be the only route to some new results [Russell] |
17629 | Which premises are ultimate varies with context [Russell] |
17630 | The sources of a proof are the reasons why we believe its conclusion [Russell] |
17627 | It seems absurd to prove 2+2=4, where the conclusion is more certain than premises [Russell] |
17628 | Arithmetic was probably inferred from relationships between physical objects [Russell] |
17637 | The most obvious beliefs are not infallible, as other obvious beliefs may conflict [Russell] |
17639 | Believing a whole science is more than believing each of its propositions [Russell] |
17631 | Induction is inferring premises from consequences [Russell] |
12769 | Inference to best explanation contains all sorts of hidden values [Fraassen] |
12768 | We accept many scientific theories without endorsing them as true [Fraassen] |
5996 | Critolaus redefined Aristotle's moral aim as fulfilment instead of happiness [Critolaus, by White,SA] |
17633 | The law of gravity has many consequences beyond its grounding observations [Russell] |