14 ideas
14767 | The demonstrations of the metaphysicians are all moonshine [Peirce] |
14764 | I am saturated with the spirit of physical science [Peirce] |
22518 | The actual must be possible, because it occurred [Aristotle] |
14768 | Infallibility in science is just a joke [Peirce] |
14765 | Association of ideas is the best philosophical idea of the prescientific age [Peirce] |
5163 | Basic propositions refer to a single experience, are incorrigible, and conclusively verifiable [Ayer] |
14766 | Duns Scotus offers perhaps the best logic and metaphysics for modern physical science [Peirce] |
5167 | The argument from analogy fails, so the best account of other minds is behaviouristic [Ayer] |
5164 | A statement is meaningful if observation statements can be deduced from it [Ayer] |
5165 | Directly verifiable statements must entail at least one new observation statement [Ayer] |
5166 | The principle of verification is not an empirical hypothesis, but a definition [Ayer] |
5162 | Sentences only express propositions if they are meaningful; otherwise they are 'statements' [Ayer] |
16566 | Poetry is more philosophic than history, as it concerns universals, not particulars [Aristotle] |
5168 | Moral approval and disapproval concerns classes of actions, rather than particular actions [Ayer] |