10 ideas
16187 | The Barcan Formulas are orthodox, but clash with the attractive Actualist view [Simchen] |
16186 | The Barcan Formulas express how to combine modal operators with classical quantifiers [Simchen] |
16190 | BF implies that if W possibly had a child, then something is possibly W's child [Simchen] |
12887 | A whole must have one characteristic, an internal relation, and a structure [Rescher/Oppenheim] |
16188 | Serious Actualism says there are no facts at all about something which doesn't exist [Simchen] |
22179 | Explanatory facts also predict, and predictive facts also explain [Hempel, by Okasha] |
21507 | Scientific explanation aims at a unifying account of underlying structures and processes [Hempel] |
6755 | For Hempel, explanations are deductive-nomological or probabilistic-statistical [Hempel, by Bird] |
17083 | The covering-law model is for scientific explanation; historical explanation is quite different [Hempel] |
13052 | Hempel rejects causation as part of explanation [Hempel, by Salmon] |