11 ideas
23367 | Even pointing a finger should only be done for a reason [Epictetus] |
21552 | Common speech is vague; its vocabulary and syntax must be modified, for precision [Russell] |
17596 | Coherence problems have positive and negative restraints; solutions maximise constraint satisfaction [Thagard] |
17597 | Coherence is explanatory, deductive, conceptual, analogical, perceptual, and deliberative [Thagard] |
17598 | Explanatory coherence needs symmetry,explanation,analogy,data priority, contradiction,competition,acceptance [Thagard] |
21551 | Empirical words need ostensive definition, which makes them egocentric [Russell] |
17602 | Verisimilitude comes from including more phenomena, and revealing what underlies [Thagard] |
17601 | Neither a priori rationalism nor sense data empiricism account for scientific knowledge [Thagard] |
17600 | Bayesian inference is forced to rely on approximations [Thagard] |
17599 | The best theory has the highest subjective (Bayesian) probability? [Thagard] |
21550 | Science reduces indexicals to a minimum, but they can never be eliminated from empirical matters [Russell] |