9 ideas
23367 | Even pointing a finger should only be done for a reason [Epictetus] |
12394 | If the result is bad, we change the rule; if we like the rule, we reject the result [Goodman] |
17809 | Gödel showed that the syntactic approach to the infinite is of limited value [Kreisel] |
17810 | The study of mathematical foundations needs new non-mathematical concepts [Kreisel] |
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] |
4794 | We don't use laws to make predictions, we call things laws if we make predictions with them [Goodman] |
17811 | The natural conception of points ducks the problem of naming or constructing each point [Kreisel] |