Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Idealism: a critical survey', 'The Roots of Reference' and 'Ancient Thought in Modern Physics'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

4 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived

14296

Dispositions are physical states of mechanism; when known, these replace the old disposition term [Quine]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / b. Pro-coherentism

21513

We can no more expect a precise definition of coherence than we can of the moral ideal [Ewing]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 5. Coherentism / c. Coherentism critique

21497

If undetailed, 'coherence' is just a vague words that covers all possible arguments [Ewing]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / j. Explanations by reduction

6552	You can only explain the qualities of large objects using entities which lack those qualities [Heisenberg]