10 ideas
| 3016 | Even the gods cannot strive against necessity [Pittacus, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 3914 | Language arranges sensory experience to form a world-order [Whorf] |
| 3916 | Hopi consistently prefers verbs and events to nouns and things [Whorf] |
| 22179 | Explanatory facts also predict, and predictive facts also explain [Hempel, by Okasha] |
| 3917 | Scientific thought is essentially a specialised part of Indo-European languages [Whorf] |
| 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] |
| 3915 | The Hopi have no concept of time as something flowing from past to future [Whorf] |