11 ideas
6950 | You can be rational with undetected or minor inconsistencies [Harman] |
6954 | A coherent conceptual scheme contains best explanations of most of your beliefs [Harman] |
5044 | Reality must be made of basic unities, which will be animated, substantial points [Leibniz] |
6955 | Enumerative induction is inference to the best explanation [Harman] |
6952 | Induction is 'defeasible', since additional information can invalidate it [Harman] |
6953 | All reasoning is inductive, and deduction only concerns implication [Harman] |
5045 | No machine or mere organised matter could have a unified self [Leibniz] |
5046 | The soul does know bodies, although they do not influence one another [Leibniz] |
6951 | Ordinary rationality is conservative, starting from where your beliefs currently are [Harman] |
7492 | Early societies are based on community, and modern societies on association [Tönnies, by Watson] |
5043 | To regard animals as mere machines may be possible, but seems improbable [Leibniz] |