9 ideas
21697 | The Struthionic Fallacy is that of burying one's head in the sand [Quine] |
12394 | If the result is bad, we change the rule; if we like the rule, we reject the result [Goodman] |
21698 | All relations, apart from ancestrals, can be reduced to simpler logic [Quine] |
21696 | Nominalism rejects both attributes and classes (where extensionalism accepts the classes) [Quine] |
14292 | Dispositions seem more ethereal than behaviour; a non-occult account of them would be nice [Goodman] |
18749 | Goodman argued that the confirmation relation can never be formalised [Goodman, by Horsten/Pettigrew] |
17646 | Goodman showed that every sound inductive argument has an unsound one of the same form [Goodman, by Putnam] |
19087 | The meaning or purport of a symbol is all the rational conduct it would lead to [Peirce] |
4794 | We don't use laws to make predictions, we call things laws if we make predictions with them [Goodman] |