Combining Texts
Ideas for
'Action', 'Natural Kinds' and 'Mathematical Methods in Philosophy'
expand these ideas
|
start again
|
choose
another area for these texts
display all the ideas for this combination of texts
6 ideas
14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 3. Experiment
16944
|
Science is common sense, with a sophisticated method [Quine]
|
14. Science / C. Induction / 1. Induction
16940
|
Induction is just more of the same: animal expectations [Quine]
|
16941
|
Induction relies on similar effects following from each cause [Quine]
|
14. Science / C. Induction / 5. Paradoxes of Induction / a. Grue problem
16933
|
Grue is a puzzle because the notions of similarity and kind are dubious in science [Quine]
|
14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / a. Types of explanation
20043
|
Evolutionary explanations look to the past or the group, not to the individual [Stout,R]
|
14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / g. Causal explanations
20058
|
Not all explanation is causal. We don't explain a painting's beauty, or the irrationality of root-2, that way [Stout,R]
|