9 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
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] |
12770 | We may end up with a huge theory of carefully constructed falsehoods [Fraassen] |
4298 | All items of possible human knowledge are interconnected, and can be reached by inference [Descartes] |
12769 | Inference to best explanation contains all sorts of hidden values [Fraassen] |
12768 | We accept many scientific theories without endorsing them as true [Fraassen] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |