7 ideas
12723 | The most primitive thing in substances is force, which leads to their actions and dispositions [Leibniz] |
14919 | Empiricists deny what is unobservable, and reject objective modality [Fraassen] |
19440 | How do you know you have conceived a thing deeply enough to assess its possibility? [Vaidya] |
6783 | To 'accept' a theory is not to believe it, but to believe it empirically adequate [Fraassen, by Bird] |
14917 | To accept a scientific theory, we only need to believe that it is empirically adequate [Fraassen] |
6784 | Why should the true explanation be one of the few we have actually thought of? [Fraassen, by Bird] |
13066 | An explanation is just descriptive information answering a particular question [Fraassen, by Salmon] |