8 ideas
13407 | All worthwhile philosophy is synthetic theorizing, evaluated by experience [Papineau] |
10245 | One geometry cannot be more true than another [Poincaré] |
13409 | Our best theories may commit us to mathematical abstracta, but that doesn't justify the commitment [Papineau] |
16698 | Days exist, and yet they seem to be made up of parts which don't exist [Burley] |
16690 | Unlike permanent things, successive things cannot exist all at once [Burley] |
13406 | A priori knowledge is analytic - the structure of our concepts - and hence unimportant [Papineau] |
13408 | Intuition and thought-experiments embody substantial information about the world [Papineau] |
13410 | Verificationism about concepts means you can't deny a theory, because you can't have the concept [Papineau] |