19 ideas
| 6457 | Sensations are mental, but sense-data could be mind-independent [Vesey] |
| 22189 | Why abandon a theory if you don't have a better one? [Gorham] |
| 22190 | If a theory is more informative it is less probable [Gorham] |
| 22192 | Is Newton simpler with universal simultaneity, or Einstein simpler without absolute time? [Gorham] |
| 22194 | Structural Realism says mathematical structures persist after theory rejection [Gorham] |
| 22195 | Structural Realists must show the mathematics is both crucial and separate [Gorham] |
| 22197 | Theories aren't just for organising present experience if they concern the past or future [Gorham] |
| 22196 | For most scientists their concepts are not just useful, but are meant to be true and accurate [Gorham] |
| 22193 | Consilience makes the component sciences more likely [Gorham] |
| 23429 | The environment needs localised politics, with its care for the land [Dobson] |
| 23424 | An ideology judges things now, and offers an ideal, with a strategy for reaching it [Dobson] |
| 23426 | Ecologism is often non-liberal, by claiming to know other people's best interests [Dobson] |
| 23427 | Socialism can be productive and centralised, or less productive and decentralised [Dobson] |
| 23428 | Difference feminists say women differ fundamentally from men [Dobson] |
| 23422 | For the environment, affluence and technology matter as much as population size [Dobson] |
| 23425 | Ecologism says growth must be reduced, and efficiency is not enough [Dobson] |
| 23430 | A million years is a proper unit of political time [Dobson] |
| 23423 | We currently value the present fourteen times more highly than the future [Dobson] |
| 22198 | Aristotelian physics has circular celestial motion and linear earthly motion [Gorham] |