12 ideas
16489 | Is it possible to state every possible truth about the whole course of nature without using 'not'? [Russell] |
16639 | Only individual bodies exist [Bacon] |
16033 | There are only individual bodies containing law-based powers, and the Forms are these laws [Bacon] |
16490 | Some facts about experience feel like logical necessities [Russell] |
14804 | Is chance just unknown laws? But the laws operate the same, whatever chance occurs [Peirce] |
16488 | It is hard to explain how a sentence like 'it is not raining' can be found true by observation [Russell] |
21950 | Science must clear away the idols of the mind if they are ever going to find the truth [Bacon] |
16491 | If we define 'this is not blue' as disbelief in 'this is blue', we eliminate 'not' as an ingredient of facts [Russell] |
14805 | Is there any such thing as death among the lower organisms? [Peirce] |
14806 | If the world is just mechanical, its whole specification has no more explanation than mere chance [Peirce] |
14803 | The more precise the observations, the less reliable appear to be the laws of nature [Peirce] |
4786 | Russell's 'at-at' theory says motion is to be at the intervening points at the intervening instants [Russell, by Psillos] |