10 ideas
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] |
7791 | The simplest of the logics based on possible worlds is Lewis's S5 [Lewis,CI, by Girle] |
11002 | Equating necessity with informal provability is the S4 conception of necessity [Lewis,CI, by Read] |
17601 | Neither a priori rationalism nor sense data empiricism account for scientific knowledge [Thagard] |
17600 | Bayesian inference is forced to rely on approximations [Thagard] |
17599 | The best theory has the highest subjective (Bayesian) probability? [Thagard] |
7903 | The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna] |