9 ideas
19463 | Induction assumes some uniformity in nature, or that in some respects the future is like the past [Ayer] |
12189 | Logical necessity involves a decision about usage, and is non-realist and non-cognitive [Wright,C, by McFetridge] |
19459 | To say 'I am not thinking' must be false, but it might have been true, so it isn't self-contradictory [Ayer] |
19460 | 'I know I exist' has no counterevidence, so it may be meaningless [Ayer] |
19461 | Knowing I exist reveals nothing at all about my nature [Ayer] |
19464 | We only discard a hypothesis after one failure if it appears likely to keep on failing [Ayer] |
19462 | Induction passes from particular facts to other particulars, or to general laws, non-deductively [Ayer] |
7320 | Holism cannot give a coherent account of scientific methodology [Wright,C, by Miller,A] |
7667 | There are two sides to men - the pleasantly social, and the violent and creative [Diderot, by Berlin] |