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Expansion for Science

1051 1. Philosophy
624 2. Reason
626 3. Truth
784 4. Formal Logic
1242 5. Theory of Logic
1188 6. Mathematics
1042 7. Existence
881 8. Modes of Existence
1527 9. Objects
799 10. Modality
485 11. Knowledge Aims
713 12. Knowledge Sources
633 13. Knowledge Criteria
675 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
39 1. Scientific Theory
15 2. Aim of Science
14 3. Instrumentalism
4 4. Paradigm
10 5. Commensurability
4 6. Theory Holism
7 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
33 g. Causal explanations
4 h. Explanations by function
32 i. Explanations by mechanism
14 j. Explanations by reduction
35 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
548 15. Nature of Minds
494 16. Persons
495 17. Mind and Body
858 18. Thought
835 19. Language
313 20. Action
270 21. Aesthetics
973 22. Metaethics
991 23. Ethics
924 24. Political Theory
752 25. Social Practice
992 26. Natural Theory
719 27. Natural Reality
429 28. God
302 29. Religion