10 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
12394 | If the result is bad, we change the rule; if we like the rule, we reject the result [Goodman] |
14292 | Dispositions seem more ethereal than behaviour; a non-occult account of them would be nice [Goodman] |
2602 | What experience could prove 'If a=c and b=c then a=b'? [Descartes] |
18749 | Goodman argued that the confirmation relation can never be formalised [Goodman, by Horsten/Pettigrew] |
17646 | Goodman showed that every sound inductive argument has an unsound one of the same form [Goodman, by Putnam] |
2601 | Qualia must be innate, because physical motions do not contain them [Descartes] |
2600 | The mind's innate ideas are part of its capacity for thought [Descartes] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |
4794 | We don't use laws to make predictions, we call things laws if we make predictions with them [Goodman] |