Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Empirical Stance' and 'Comments on a Certain Broadsheet'

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10 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy

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Philosophy is a value- and attitude-driven enterprise [Fraassen]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 2. Possibility of Metaphysics

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Is it likely that a successful, coherent, explanatory ontological hypothesis is true? [Fraassen]

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 1. Nature of Analysis

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Analytic philosophy has an exceptional arsenal of critical tools [Fraassen]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence

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We may end up with a huge theory of carefully constructed falsehoods [Fraassen]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 4. A Priori as Necessities

2602	What experience could prove 'If a=c and b=c then a=b'? [Descartes]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism

3061	Anaxarchus said that he was not even sure that he knew nothing [Anaxarchus, by Diog. Laertius]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 3. Best Explanation / c. Against best explanation

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Inference to best explanation contains all sorts of hidden values [Fraassen]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 4. Explanation Doubts / a. Explanation as pragmatic

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We accept many scientific theories without endorsing them as true [Fraassen]

18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / c. Nativist concepts

2600	The mind's innate ideas are part of its capacity for thought [Descartes]

2601	Qualia must be innate, because physical motions do not contain them [Descartes]