11 ideas
16676 | Why use more things when fewer will do? [William of Ockham] |
12394 | If the result is bad, we change the rule; if we like the rule, we reject the result [Goodman] |
14292 | Dispositions seem more ethereal than behaviour; a non-occult account of them would be nice [Goodman] |
12699 | A body would be endless disunited parts, if it did not have a unifying form or soul [Leibniz] |
12700 | Form or soul gives unity and duration; matter gives multiplicity and change [Leibniz] |
12736 | If we understand God and his choices, we have a priori knowledge of contingent truths [Leibniz, by Garber] |
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] |
12698 | Every body contains a kind of sense and appetite, or a soul [Leibniz] |
16675 | Every extended material substance is composed of parts distant from one another [William of Ockham] |
4794 | We don't use laws to make predictions, we call things laws if we make predictions with them [Goodman] |