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Expansion for Science

1061 1. Philosophy
635 2. Reason
630 3. Truth
784 4. Formal Logic
1246 5. Theory of Logic
1191 6. Mathematics
1062 7. Existence
896 8. Modes of Existence
1531 9. Objects
800 10. Modality
490 11. Knowledge Aims
718 12. Knowledge Sources
636 13. Knowledge Criteria
688 14. Science
A. Basis of Science
8 1. Observation
27 2. Demonstration
15 3. Experiment
18 4. Prediction
7 5. Anomalies
21 6. Falsification
B. Scientific Theories
40 1. Scientific Theory
17 2. Aim of Science
14 3. Instrumentalism
4 4. Paradigm
10 5. Commensurability
4 6. Theory Holism
12 7. Scientific Models
8 8. Ramsey Sentences
C. Induction
27 1. Induction
14 2. Aims of Induction
32 3. Limits of Induction
12 4. Reason in Induction
20 5. Paradoxes of Induction a. Grue problem
16 b. Raven paradox
19 6. Bayes's Theorem
D. Explanation
18 1. Explanation a. Explanation
26 b. Aims of explanation
6 c. Direction of explanation
3 d. Explaining people
34 2. Types of Explanation a. Types of explanation
4 b. Contrastive explanations
14 c. Explanations by coherence
3 d. Consilience
35 e. Lawlike explanations
5 f. Necessity in explanations
35 g. Causal explanations
5 h. Explanations by function
32 i. Explanations by mechanism
15 j. Explanations by reduction
36 k. Explanations by essence
7 l. Probabilistic explanations
5 m. Explanation by proof
26 3. Best Explanation a. Best explanation
12 b. Ultimate explanation
11 c. Against best explanation
9 4. Explanation Doubts a. Explanation as pragmatic
2 b. Rejecting explanation
564 15. Nature of Minds
499 16. Persons
497 17. Mind and Body
873 18. Thought
841 19. Language
323 20. Action
272 21. Aesthetics
989 22. Metaethics
1002 23. Ethics
973 24. Political Theory
773 25. Social Practice
1001 26. Natural Theory
729 27. Natural Reality
429 28. God
309 29. Religion