12 ideas
9100 | Our intellect only assents to what we believe to be true [William of Ockham] |
22189 | Why abandon a theory if you don't have a better one? [Gorham] |
22190 | If a theory is more informative it is less probable [Gorham] |
22192 | Is Newton simpler with universal simultaneity, or Einstein simpler without absolute time? [Gorham] |
22194 | Structural Realism says mathematical structures persist after theory rejection [Gorham] |
22195 | Structural Realists must show the mathematics is both crucial and separate [Gorham] |
22197 | Theories aren't just for organising present experience if they concern the past or future [Gorham] |
22196 | For most scientists their concepts are not just useful, but are meant to be true and accurate [Gorham] |
22193 | Consilience makes the component sciences more likely [Gorham] |
9101 | Abstractive cognition knows universals abstracted from many singulars [William of Ockham] |
22198 | Aristotelian physics has circular celestial motion and linear earthly motion [Gorham] |
4398 | An event causes another just if the second event would not have happened without the first [Lewis, by Psillos] |