6 ideas
18170 | The Axiom of Reducibility is self-effacing: if true, it isn't needed [Quine] |
1556 | By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias] |
22179 | Explanatory facts also predict, and predictive facts also explain [Hempel, by Okasha] |
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] |