18 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] |
| 22180 | Multiple realisability is said to make reduction impossible [Okasha] |
| 13197 | The notion of substance is one of the keys to true philosophy [Leibniz] |
| 22177 | Randomised Control Trials have a treatment and a control group, chosen at random [Okasha] |
| 22172 | Not all sciences are experimental; astronomy relies on careful observation [Okasha] |
| 22174 | The discoverers of Neptune didn't change their theory because of an anomaly [Okasha] |
| 22175 | Science mostly aims at confirming theories, rather than falsifying them [Okasha] |
| 22182 | Theories with unobservables are underdetermined by the evidence [Okasha] |
| 22185 | Two things can't be incompatible if they are incommensurable [Okasha] |
| 6955 | Enumerative induction is inference to the best explanation [Harman] |
| 22176 | Induction is inferences from examined to unexamined instances of a given kind [Okasha] |
| 6952 | Induction is 'defeasible', since additional information can invalidate it [Harman] |
| 6953 | All reasoning is inductive, and deduction only concerns implication [Harman] |
| 22178 | If the rules only concern changes of belief, and not the starting point, absurd views can look ratiional [Okasha] |
| 6951 | Ordinary rationality is conservative, starting from where your beliefs currently are [Harman] |
| 13198 | Gravity is within matter because of its structure, and it can be explained. [Leibniz] |
| 22173 | Galileo refuted the Aristotelian theory that heavier objects fall faster [Okasha] |