8 ideas
9916 | Convention, yes! Arbitrary, no! [Poincaré, by Putnam] |
10993 | Ramsey's Test: believe the consequent if you believe the antecedent [Ramsey, by Read] |
14279 | Asking 'If p, will q?' when p is uncertain, then first add p hypothetically to your knowledge [Ramsey] |
18699 | Carnap tried to define all scientific predicates in terms of primitive relations, using type theory [Carnap, by Button] |
6894 | Mental terms can be replaced in a sentence by a variable and an existential quantifier [Ramsey] |
12131 | All concepts can be derived from a few basics, making possible one science of everything [Carnap, by Brody] |
9418 | All knowledge needs systematizing, and the axioms would be the laws of nature [Ramsey] |
9420 | Causal laws result from the simplest axioms of a complete deductive system [Ramsey] |