21 ideas
17070 | Coherence is consilience, simplicity, analogy, and fitting into a web of belief [Smart] |
17072 | We need comprehensiveness, as well as self-coherence [Smart] |
16657 | Substance, Quantity and Quality are real; other categories depend on those three [Henry of Ghent] |
16658 | The only reality in the category of Relation is things from another category [Henry of Ghent] |
16645 | Accidents are diminished beings, because they are dispositions of substance (unqualified being) [Henry of Ghent] |
22142 | In future, only logical limits can be placed on divine omnipotence [Anon (Par), by Boulter] |
22012 | Kant says things-in-themselves cause sensations, but then makes causation transcendental! [Henry of Ghent, by Pinkard] |
17073 | I simply reject evidence, if it is totally contrary to my web of belief [Smart] |
16716 | It is heresy to require self-evident foundational principles in order to be certain [Anon (Par)] |
17077 | The height of a flagpole could be fixed by its angle of shadow, but that would be very unusual [Smart] |
17078 | Universe expansion explains the red shift, but not vice versa [Smart] |
17074 | Explanations are bad by fitting badly with a web of beliefs, or fitting well into a bad web [Smart] |
17076 | Deducing from laws is one possible way to achieve a coherent explanation [Smart] |
17061 | Explanation of a fact is fitting it into a system of beliefs [Smart] |
17071 | An explanation is better if it also explains phenomena from a different field [Smart] |
17062 | If scientific explanation is causal, that rules out mathematical explanation [Smart] |
17075 | Scientific explanation tends to reduce things to the unfamiliar (not the familiar) [Smart] |
1866 | It is heresy to teach that history repeats every 36,000 years [Anon (Par)] |
17063 | Unlike Newton, Einstein's general theory explains the perihelion of Mercury [Smart] |
1865 | It is heresy to teach that natural impossibilities cannot even be achieved by God [Anon (Par)] |
1864 | It is heresy to teach that we can know God by his essence in this mortal life [Anon (Par)] |