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Expansion for Science

1058 1. Philosophy
633 2. Reason
629 3. Truth
784 4. Formal Logic
1243 5. Theory of Logic
1191 6. Mathematics
1049 7. Existence
897 8. Modes of Existence
1529 9. Objects
800 10. Modality
489 11. Knowledge Aims
716 12. Knowledge Sources
635 13. Knowledge Criteria
679 14. Science
A. Basis of Science
8 1. Observation
27 2. Demonstration
15 3. Experiment
18 4. Prediction
7 5. Anomalies
21 6. Falsification
B. Scientific Theories
39 1. Scientific Theory
15 2. Aim of Science
14 3. Instrumentalism
4 4. Paradigm
10 5. Commensurability
4 6. Theory Holism
7 7. Scientific Models
8 8. Ramsey Sentences
C. Induction
27 1. Induction
14 2. Aims of Induction
32 3. Limits of Induction
12 4. Reason in Induction
20 5. Paradoxes of Induction a. Grue problem
16 b. Raven paradox
19 6. Bayes's Theorem
D. Explanation
18 1. Explanation a. Explanation
26 b. Aims of explanation
6 c. Direction of explanation
3 d. Explaining people
34 2. Types of Explanation a. Types of explanation
4 b. Contrastive explanations
14 c. Explanations by coherence
3 d. Consilience
35 e. Lawlike explanations
5 f. Necessity in explanations
33 g. Causal explanations
4 h. Explanations by function
32 i. Explanations by mechanism
14 j. Explanations by reduction
36 k. Explanations by essence
7 l. Probabilistic explanations
5 m. Explanation by proof
26 3. Best Explanation a. Best explanation
12 b. Ultimate explanation
11 c. Against best explanation
9 4. Explanation Doubts a. Explanation as pragmatic
2 b. Rejecting explanation
552 15. Nature of Minds
496 16. Persons
495 17. Mind and Body
860 18. Thought
835 19. Language
323 20. Action
272 21. Aesthetics
985 22. Metaethics
999 23. Ethics
941 24. Political Theory
767 25. Social Practice
998 26. Natural Theory
726 27. Natural Reality
429 28. God
309 29. Religion