15 ideas
| 291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
| 22076 | Being is only perceptible to itself as becoming [Schelling] |
| 22180 | Multiple realisability is said to make reduction impossible [Okasha] |
| 22074 | We must show that the whole of nature, because it is effective, is grounded in freedom [Schelling] |
| 22177 | Randomised Control Trials have a treatment and a control group, chosen at random [Okasha] |
| 22172 | Not all sciences are experimental; astronomy relies on careful observation [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] |
| 22075 | Only idealism has given us the genuine concept of freedom [Schelling] |
| 293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |
| 22173 | Galileo refuted the Aristotelian theory that heavier objects fall faster [Okasha] |