8 ideas
12772 | Philosophy is a value- and attitude-driven enterprise [Fraassen] |
12771 | Is it likely that a successful, coherent, explanatory ontological hypothesis is true? [Fraassen] |
12773 | Analytic philosophy has an exceptional arsenal of critical tools [Fraassen] |
16567 | Scientists know everything about nothing, philosophers nothing about everything [Sagan,D] |
12770 | We may end up with a huge theory of carefully constructed falsehoods [Fraassen] |
13128 | 'Ultimate sortals' cannot explain ontological categories [Westerhoff on Wiggins] |
12769 | Inference to best explanation contains all sorts of hidden values [Fraassen] |
12768 | We accept many scientific theories without endorsing them as true [Fraassen] |