10 ideas
| 12394 | If the result is bad, we change the rule; if we like the rule, we reject the result [Goodman] |
| 5044 | Reality must be made of basic unities, which will be animated, substantial points [Leibniz] |
| 14292 | Dispositions seem more ethereal than behaviour; a non-occult account of them would be nice [Goodman] |
| 18749 | Goodman argued that the confirmation relation can never be formalised [Goodman, by Horsten/Pettigrew] |
| 17646 | Goodman showed that every sound inductive argument has an unsound one of the same form [Goodman, by Putnam] |
| 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] |
| 4794 | We don't use laws to make predictions, we call things laws if we make predictions with them [Goodman] |
| 5043 | To regard animals as mere machines may be possible, but seems improbable [Leibniz] |
| 16689 | The schools said spirits lack extension, and wonder how many could dance on a needle's point [More,H] |