Combining Texts

Ideas for 'Meaning and the Moral Sciences', 'The Problem of Knowledge' and 'works'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     choose another area for these texts

display all the ideas for this combination of texts


3 ideas

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 6. Falsification
We only discard a hypothesis after one failure if it appears likely to keep on failing [Ayer]
14. Science / C. Induction / 2. Aims of Induction
Induction passes from particular facts to other particulars, or to general laws, non-deductively [Ayer]
14. Science / D. Explanation / 4. Explanation Doubts / a. Explanation as pragmatic
You can't decide which explanations are good if you don't attend to the interest-relative aspects [Putnam]