11 ideas
9616 | A set is a collection into a whole of distinct objects of our intuition or thought [Cantor] |
15896 | Cantor needed Power Set for the reals, but then couldn't count the new collections [Cantor, by Lavine] |
18076 | Most theories are continually falsified [Kuhn, by Kitcher] |
22191 | Kuhn's scientists don't aim to falsifying their paradigm, because that is what they rely on [Kuhn, by Gorham] |
22183 | Switching scientific paradigms is a conversion experience [Kuhn] |
6162 | Kuhn has a description theory of reference, so the reference of 'electron' changes with the descriptions [Rowlands on Kuhn] |
22184 | Incommensurability assumes concepts get their meaning from within the theory [Kuhn, by Okasha] |
7619 | Galileo's notions can't be 'incommensurable' if we can fully describe them [Putnam on Kuhn] |
14802 | Physical and psychical laws of mind are either independent, or derived in one or other direction [Peirce] |
14800 | The world is full of variety, but laws seem to produce uniformity [Peirce] |
14801 | Darwinian evolution is chance, with the destruction of bad results [Peirce] |