10 ideas
| 21750 | Science is sympathetic to truth as correspondence, since it depends on observation [Quine] |
| 21748 | More careful inductions gradually lead to the hypothetico-deductive method [Quine] |
| 20643 | Consilience is a common groundwork of explanation [Whewell] |
| 21749 | Altruistic values concern other persons, and ceremonial values concern practices [Quine] |
| 21751 | Love seems to diminish with distance from oneself [Quine] |
| 6613 | The natural kinds are objects, processes and properties/relations [Ellis] |
| 6616 | Least action is not a causal law, but a 'global law', describing a global essence [Ellis] |
| 6615 | A species requires a genus, and its essence includes the essence of the genus [Ellis] |
| 6614 | A hierarchy of natural kinds is elaborate ontology, but needed to explain natural laws [Ellis] |
| 6612 | Without general principles, we couldn't predict the behaviour of dispositional properties [Ellis] |