9 ideas
22820 | Early Romantics sought a plurality of systems, in a quest for freedom [Hösle] |
19463 | Induction assumes some uniformity in nature, or that in some respects the future is like the past [Ayer] |
19461 | Knowing I exist reveals nothing at all about my nature [Ayer] |
19459 | To say 'I am not thinking' must be false, but it might have been true, so it isn't self-contradictory [Ayer] |
19460 | 'I know I exist' has no counterevidence, so it may be meaningless [Ayer] |
19464 | We only discard a hypothesis after one failure if it appears likely to keep on failing [Ayer] |
19462 | Induction passes from particular facts to other particulars, or to general laws, non-deductively [Ayer] |
22819 | In the 18th century history came to be seen as progressive, rather than cyclical [Hösle] |
19399 | Prime matter is nothing when it is at rest [Leibniz] |