9 ideas
13407 | All worthwhile philosophy is synthetic theorizing, evaluated by experience [Papineau] |
13409 | Our best theories may commit us to mathematical abstracta, but that doesn't justify the commitment [Papineau] |
16639 | Only individual bodies exist [Bacon] |
16033 | There are only individual bodies containing law-based powers, and the Forms are these laws [Bacon] |
13406 | A priori knowledge is analytic - the structure of our concepts - and hence unimportant [Papineau] |
13408 | Intuition and thought-experiments embody substantial information about the world [Papineau] |
21950 | Science must clear away the idols of the mind if they are ever going to find the truth [Bacon] |
8130 | Qualities of experience are just representational aspects of experience ('Representationalism') [Harman, by Burge] |
13410 | Verificationism about concepts means you can't deny a theory, because you can't have the concept [Papineau] |