9 ideas
12394 | If the result is bad, we change the rule; if we like the rule, we reject the result [Goodman] |
8203 | All the arithmetical entities can be reduced to classes of integers, and hence to sets [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] |
8202 | Meaning is essence divorced from things and wedded to words [Quine] |
8201 | The distinction between meaning and further information is as vague as the essence/accident distinction [Quine] |
468 | Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.] |
4794 | We don't use laws to make predictions, we call things laws if we make predictions with them [Goodman] |