16 ideas
10496 | Monothetic categories have fixed defining features, and polythetic categories do not [Ellen] |
10497 | In symbolic classification, the categories are linked to rules [Ellen] |
10494 | Several words may label a category; one word can name several categories; some categories lack words [Ellen] |
10495 | Continuous experience sometimes needs imposition of boundaries to create categories [Ellen] |
10498 | Classification is no longer held to be rooted in social institutions [Ellen] |
22189 | Why abandon a theory if you don't have a better one? [Gorham] |
22190 | If a theory is more informative it is less probable [Gorham] |
22192 | Is Newton simpler with universal simultaneity, or Einstein simpler without absolute time? [Gorham] |
22194 | Structural Realism says mathematical structures persist after theory rejection [Gorham] |
22195 | Structural Realists must show the mathematics is both crucial and separate [Gorham] |
22196 | For most scientists their concepts are not just useful, but are meant to be true and accurate [Gorham] |
22197 | Theories aren't just for organising present experience if they concern the past or future [Gorham] |
6027 | From the fact that some men die, we cannot infer that they all do [Philodemus] |
22193 | Consilience makes the component sciences more likely [Gorham] |
22241 | Don't fear god or worry about death; the good is easily got and the terrible easily cured [Philodemus] |
22198 | Aristotelian physics has circular celestial motion and linear earthly motion [Gorham] |