9 ideas
16052 | 'Superdupervenience' is supervenience that has a robustly materialistic explanation [Horgan,T] |
16053 | 'Global' supervenience is facts tracking varying physical facts in every possible world [Horgan,T] |
16056 | Don't just observe supervenience - explain it! [Horgan,T] |
16054 | Physicalism needs more than global supervenience on the physical [Horgan,T] |
16055 | Materialism requires that physics be causally complete [Horgan,T] |
18699 | Carnap tried to define all scientific predicates in terms of primitive relations, using type theory [Carnap, by Button] |
16057 | Instrumentalism normally says some discourse is useful, but not genuinely true [Horgan,T] |
22200 | If you eliminate the impossible, the truth will remain, even if it is weird [Conan Doyle] |
12131 | All concepts can be derived from a few basics, making possible one science of everything [Carnap, by Brody] |