5 ideas
6782 | Realism is the only philosophy of science that doesn't make the success of science a miracle [Putnam] |
3425 | Reduction has been defined as deriving one theory from another by logic and maths [Nagel,E, by Kim] |
22181 | Putnam says anti-realism is a bad explanation of accurate predictions [Putnam, by Okasha] |
10558 | Abstract objects are actually constituted by the properties by which we conceive them [Zalta] |
10557 | Abstract objects are captured by second-order modal logic, plus 'encoding' formulas [Zalta] |