9 ideas
9217 | Modern empirical metaphysics focuses on ontological commitments of discourse, or on presuppositions [Loux/Zimmerman] |
22361 | Contextual values are acceptable in research, but not in its final evaluation [Reichenbach, by Reiss/Sprenger] |
19086 | Does the pragmatic theory of meaning support objective truth, or make it impossible? [Macbeth] |
19093 | Greek mathematics is wholly sensory, where ours is wholly inferential [Macbeth] |
18278 | Kant showed that our perceptions are partly constructed from our concepts [Reichenbach] |
19091 | Seeing reality mathematically makes it an object of thought, not of experience [Macbeth] |
19088 | For pragmatists a concept means its consequences [Macbeth] |
8410 | A theory of causal relations yields an asymmetry which defines the direction of time [Reichenbach, by Salmon] |
14935 | The direction of time is grounded in the direction of causation [Reichenbach, by Ladyman/Ross] |