14 ideas
| 22138 | Science rests on scholastic metaphysics, not on Hume, Kant or Carnap [Boulter] |
| 15538 | Semantic indecision explains vagueness (if we have precisifications to be undecided about) [Lewis] |
| 22134 | Thoughts are general, but the world isn't, so how can we think accurately? [Boulter] |
| 15537 | If cats are vague, we deny that the many cats are one, or deny that the one cat is many [Lewis] |
| 15536 | We have one cloud, but many possible boundaries and aggregates for it [Lewis] |
| 22150 | Logical possibility needs the concepts of the proposition to be adequate [Boulter] |
| 22062 | Mental presentation are not empirical, but concern the strivings of the self [Fichte] |
| 22015 | The thing-in-itself is an empty dream [Fichte, by Pinkard] |
| 22139 | Experiments don't just observe; they look to see what interventions change the natural order [Boulter] |
| 22136 | Science begins with sufficient reason, de-animation, and the importance of nature [Boulter] |
| 22135 | Our concepts can never fully capture reality, but simplification does not falsify [Boulter] |
| 22152 | Aristotelians accept the analytic-synthetic distinction [Boulter] |
| 15539 | Basic to pragmatics is taking a message in a way that makes sense of it [Lewis] |
| 22156 | The facts about human health are the measure of the values in our lives [Boulter] |