14 ideas
291 | Don't assume that wisdom is the automatic consequence of old age [Plato] |
22138 | Science rests on scholastic metaphysics, not on Hume, Kant or Carnap [Boulter] |
19086 | Does the pragmatic theory of meaning support objective truth, or make it impossible? [Macbeth] |
19093 | Greek mathematics is wholly sensory, where ours is wholly inferential [Macbeth] |
22134 | Thoughts are general, but the world isn't, so how can we think accurately? [Boulter] |
22150 | Logical possibility needs the concepts of the proposition to be adequate [Boulter] |
22139 | Experiments don't just observe; they look to see what interventions change the natural order [Boulter] |
19091 | Seeing reality mathematically makes it an object of thought, not of experience [Macbeth] |
22136 | Science begins with sufficient reason, de-animation, and the importance of nature [Boulter] |
22135 | Our concepts can never fully capture reality, but simplification does not falsify [Boulter] |
19088 | For pragmatists a concept means its consequences [Macbeth] |
22152 | Aristotelians accept the analytic-synthetic distinction [Boulter] |
22156 | The facts about human health are the measure of the values in our lives [Boulter] |
293 | Being unafraid (perhaps through ignorance) and being brave are two different things [Plato] |