Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Hermarchus, Hippias and Carl Hempel

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7 ideas

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention

1556	By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 4. Prediction

22179

Explanatory facts also predict, and predictive facts also explain [Hempel, by Okasha]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 1. Explanation / b. Aims of explanation

21507

Scientific explanation aims at a unifying account of underlying structures and processes [Hempel]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / e. Lawlike explanations

17083

The covering-law model is for scientific explanation; historical explanation is quite different [Hempel]

6755	For Hempel, explanations are deductive-nomological or probabilistic-statistical [Hempel, by Bird]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / g. Causal explanations

13052

Hempel rejects causation as part of explanation [Hempel, by Salmon]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 6. Animal Rights

6005	Animals are dangerous and nourishing, and can't form contracts of justice [Hermarchus, by Sedley]