8 ideas
12394 | If the result is bad, we change the rule; if we like the rule, we reject the result [Goodman] |
6408 | Russell needed three extra axioms to reduce maths to logic: infinity, choice and reducibility [Grayling] |
14292 | Dispositions seem more ethereal than behaviour; a non-occult account of them would be nice [Goodman] |
6414 | Two propositions might seem self-evident, but contradict one another [Grayling] |
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] |
15788 | Syntax and semantics are indeterminate, and modern 'semantics' is a bogus subject [Quine, by Lycan] |
4794 | We don't use laws to make predictions, we call things laws if we make predictions with them [Goodman] |