10 ideas
10496 | Monothetic categories have fixed defining features, and polythetic categories do not [Ellen] |
10497 | In symbolic classification, the categories are linked to rules [Ellen] |
10495 | Continuous experience sometimes needs imposition of boundaries to create categories [Ellen] |
12177 | Human artefacts may have essences, in their purposes [Popper] |
10498 | Classification is no longer held to be rooted in social institutions [Ellen] |
12176 | Science does not aim at ultimate explanations [Popper] |
541 | Virtue comes more from habit than character [Critias] |
12175 | Galilean science aimed at true essences, as the ultimate explanations [Popper] |
12179 | Essentialist views of science prevent further questions from being raised [Popper] |
542 | Fear of the gods was invented to discourage secret sin [Critias] |