21 ideas
| 12124 | Metaphysics is the best knowledge, because it is the simplest [Bacon] |
| 12123 | Natural history supports physical knowledge, which supports metaphysical knowledge [Bacon] |
| 12119 | Physics studies transitory matter; metaphysics what is abstracted and necessary [Bacon] |
| 12120 | Physics is of material and efficient causes, metaphysics of formal and final causes [Bacon] |
| 22180 | Multiple realisability is said to make reduction impossible [Okasha] |
| 12121 | We don't assume there is no land, because we can only see sea [Bacon] |
| 22172 | Not all sciences are experimental; astronomy relies on careful observation [Okasha] |
| 12117 | Science moves up and down between inventions of causes, and experiments [Bacon] |
| 22177 | Randomised Control Trials have a treatment and a control group, chosen at random [Okasha] |
| 22174 | The discoverers of Neptune didn't change their theory because of an anomaly [Okasha] |
| 22175 | Science mostly aims at confirming theories, rather than falsifying them [Okasha] |
| 22182 | Theories with unobservables are underdetermined by the evidence [Okasha] |
| 12127 | Many different theories will fit the observed facts [Bacon] |
| 22185 | Two things can't be incompatible if they are incommensurable [Okasha] |
| 22176 | Induction is inferences from examined to unexamined instances of a given kind [Okasha] |
| 22178 | If the rules only concern changes of belief, and not the starting point, absurd views can look ratiional [Okasha] |
| 12126 | People love (unfortunately) extreme generality, rather than particular knowledge [Bacon] |
| 9145 | We form the image of a cardinal number by a double abstraction, from the elements and from their order [Cantor] |
| 12125 | Teleological accounts are fine in metaphysics, but they stop us from searching for the causes [Bacon] |
| 12118 | Essences are part of first philosophy, but as part of nature, not part of logic [Bacon] |
| 22173 | Galileo refuted the Aristotelian theory that heavier objects fall faster [Okasha] |