13 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
7454 | Gassendi is the first great empiricist philosopher [Hacking] |
4304 | Descartes says there are two substance, Spinoza one, and Leibniz infinitely many [Cottingham] |
7447 | Probability was fully explained between 1654 and 1812 [Hacking] |
7448 | Probability is statistical (behaviour of chance devices) or epistemological (belief based on evidence) [Hacking] |
7449 | Epistemological probability based either on logical implications or coherent judgments [Hacking] |
4303 | The notion of substance lies at the heart of rationalist metaphysics [Cottingham] |
7450 | In the medieval view, only deduction counted as true evidence [Hacking] |
7451 | Formerly evidence came from people; the new idea was that things provided evidence [Hacking] |
7452 | An experiment is a test, or an adventure, or a diagnosis, or a dissection [Hacking, by PG] |
7459 | Follow maths for necessary truths, and jurisprudence for contingent truths [Hacking] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |
4306 | For rationalists, it is necessary that effects be deducible from their causes [Cottingham] |