10 ideas
| 19463 | Induction assumes some uniformity in nature, or that in some respects the future is like the past [Ayer] |
| 19461 | Knowing I exist reveals nothing at all about my nature [Ayer] |
| 19459 | To say 'I am not thinking' must be false, but it might have been true, so it isn't self-contradictory [Ayer] |
| 19460 | 'I know I exist' has no counterevidence, so it may be meaningless [Ayer] |
| 19464 | We only discard a hypothesis after one failure if it appears likely to keep on failing [Ayer] |
| 19462 | Induction passes from particular facts to other particulars, or to general laws, non-deductively [Ayer] |
| 3102 | Why don't we experience or remember going to sleep at night? [Magee] |
| 23829 | National leaders want to preserve necessary order - but always the existing order [Weil] |
| 23828 | National prestige consists of behaving as if you could beat the others in a war [Weil] |
| 23827 | Modern wars are fought in the name of empty words which are given capital letters [Weil] |