16 ideas
12270 | Being is one [Melissus, by Aristotle] |
22180 | Multiple realisability is said to make reduction impossible [Okasha] |
3061 | Anaxarchus said that he was not even sure that he knew nothing [Anaxarchus, by Diog. Laertius] |
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] |
3059 | There is no real motion, only the appearance of it [Melissus, by Diog. Laertius] |
22173 | Galileo refuted the Aristotelian theory that heavier objects fall faster [Okasha] |
5100 | The void is not required for change, because a plenum can alter in quality [Aristotle on Melissus] |
456 | Nothing could come out of nothing [Melissus] |
17366 | Virtually all modern views of speciation rest on relational rather than intrinsic features [Okasha] |