5 ideas
6782 | Realism is the only philosophy of science that doesn't make the success of science a miracle [Putnam] |
9465 | Substitutional universal quantification retains truth for substitution of terms of the same type [Jacquette] |
9466 | Nominalists like substitutional quantification to avoid the metaphysics of objects [Jacquette] |
22181 | Putnam says anti-realism is a bad explanation of accurate predictions [Putnam, by Okasha] |
4398 | An event causes another just if the second event would not have happened without the first [Lewis, by Psillos] |