9 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] |
3291 | Emergent properties appear at high levels of complexity, but aren't explainable by the lower levels [Nagel] |
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] |
6951 | Ordinary rationality is conservative, starting from where your beliefs currently are [Harman] |
22450 | If moral systems can't judge other moral systems, then moral relativism is true [Williams,B, by Foot] |
3290 | Given the nature of heat and of water, it is literally impossible for water not to boil at the right heat [Nagel] |