9 ideas
12772 | Philosophy is a value- and attitude-driven enterprise [Fraassen] |
21959 | Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW] |
12771 | Is it likely that a successful, coherent, explanatory ontological hypothesis is true? [Fraassen] |
12773 | Analytic philosophy has an exceptional arsenal of critical tools [Fraassen] |
12770 | We may end up with a huge theory of carefully constructed falsehoods [Fraassen] |
21958 | Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW] |
12769 | Inference to best explanation contains all sorts of hidden values [Fraassen] |
12768 | We accept many scientific theories without endorsing them as true [Fraassen] |
20239 | Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche] |