13 ideas
15527 | Defining terms either enables elimination, or shows that they don't require elimination [Lewis] |
17644 | Metaphysical realism is committed to there being one ultimate true theory [Putnam] |
17648 | It is an illusion to think there could be one good scientific theory of reality [Putnam] |
17643 | Shape is essential relative to 'statue', but not essential relative to 'clay' [Putnam] |
15530 | A logically determinate name names the same thing in every possible world [Lewis] |
17642 | The old view that sense data are independent of mind is quite dotty [Putnam] |
15528 | A Ramsey sentence just asserts that a theory can be realised, without saying by what [Lewis] |
15526 | There is a method for defining new scientific terms just using the terms we already understand [Lewis] |
15529 | It is better to have one realisation of a theory than many - but it may not always be possible [Lewis] |
15531 | The Ramsey sentence of a theory says that it has at least one realisation [Lewis] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
17645 | An alien might think oxygen was the main cause of a forest fire [Putnam] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |