13 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] |
17622 | We come to believe mathematical propositions via their grounding in the structure [Burge] |
8824 | No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim] |
12121 | We don't assume there is no land, because we can only see sea [Bacon] |
12117 | Science moves up and down between inventions of causes, and experiments [Bacon] |
12127 | Many different theories will fit the observed facts [Bacon] |
12126 | People love (unfortunately) extreme generality, rather than particular knowledge [Bacon] |
12125 | Teleological accounts are fine in metaphysics, but they stop us from searching for the causes [Bacon] |
15251 | The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer] |
12118 | Essences are part of first philosophy, but as part of nature, not part of logic [Bacon] |