10 ideas
14767 | The demonstrations of the metaphysicians are all moonshine [Peirce] |
14764 | I am saturated with the spirit of physical science [Peirce] |
15035 | If universals are not separate, we can isolate them by abstraction [Boethius, by Panaccio] |
16678 | Without magnitude a thing would retain its parts, but they would have no location [Buridan] |
16793 | A thing is (less properly) the same over time if each part is succeeded by another [Buridan] |
14768 | Infallibility in science is just a joke [Peirce] |
14765 | Association of ideas is the best philosophical idea of the prescientific age [Peirce] |
16577 | Induction is not demonstration, because not all of the instances can be observed [Buridan] |
14766 | Duns Scotus offers perhaps the best logic and metaphysics for modern physical science [Peirce] |
16576 | Science is based on induction, for general truths about fire, rhubarb and magnets [Buridan] |