19 ideas
18369 | There are at least fourteen candidates for truth-bearers [Kirkham] |
19318 | A 'sequence' of objects is an order set of them [Kirkham] |
19319 | If one sequence satisfies a sentence, they all do [Kirkham] |
19320 | If we define truth by listing the satisfactions, the supply of predicates must be finite [Kirkham] |
19315 | In quantified language the components of complex sentences may not be sentences [Kirkham] |
19317 | An open sentence is satisfied if the object possess that property [Kirkham] |
22180 | Multiple realisability is said to make reduction impossible [Okasha] |
19322 | Why can there not be disjunctive, conditional and negative facts? [Kirkham] |
22172 | Not all sciences are experimental; astronomy relies on careful observation [Okasha] |
22177 | Randomised Control Trials have a treatment and a control group, chosen at random [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] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
22173 | Galileo refuted the Aristotelian theory that heavier objects fall faster [Okasha] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |