8 ideas
| 19494 | Fictionalism allows that simulated beliefs may be tracking real facts [Yablo] |
| 19493 | Governing possible worlds theory is the fiction that if something is possible, it happens in a world [Yablo] |
| 15877 | The aim of science is just to create a comprehensive, elegant language to describe brute facts [Poincaré, by Harré] |
| 21277 | Even an imperfect machine can exhibit obvious design [Paley] |
| 21275 | Unlike a stone, the parts of a watch are obviously assembled in order to show the time [Paley] |
| 21276 | From the obvious purpose and structure of a watch we must infer that it was designed [Paley] |
| 21357 | No organ shows purpose more obviously than the eyelid [Paley] |
| 21278 | All the signs of design found in a watch are also found in nature [Paley] |