12 ideas
17596 | Coherence problems have positive and negative restraints; solutions maximise constraint satisfaction [Thagard] |
17597 | Coherence is explanatory, deductive, conceptual, analogical, perceptual, and deliberative [Thagard] |
17598 | Explanatory coherence needs symmetry,explanation,analogy,data priority, contradiction,competition,acceptance [Thagard] |
17602 | Verisimilitude comes from including more phenomena, and revealing what underlies [Thagard] |
9915 | V = L just says all sets are constructible [Putnam] |
13655 | The Löwenheim-Skolem theorems show that whether all sets are constructible is indeterminate [Putnam, by Shapiro] |
9913 | The Löwenheim-Skolem Theorem is close to an antinomy in philosophy of language [Putnam] |
9914 | It is unfashionable, but most mathematical intuitions come from nature [Putnam] |
17601 | Neither a priori rationalism nor sense data empiricism account for scientific knowledge [Thagard] |
17600 | Bayesian inference is forced to rely on approximations [Thagard] |
17599 | The best theory has the highest subjective (Bayesian) probability? [Thagard] |
12709 | Motion is not absolute, but consists in relation [Leibniz] |