6 ideas
6782 | Realism is the only philosophy of science that doesn't make the success of science a miracle [Putnam] |
22181 | Putnam says anti-realism is a bad explanation of accurate predictions [Putnam, by Okasha] |
8386 | Events are picked out by descriptions, and facts by whole sentences [Crane] |
6171 | Beliefs are states of the head that explain behaviour, and also items with referential truth-conditions [McGinn] |
8387 | A cause has its effects in virtue of its properties [Crane] |
8384 | The regularity theory explains a causal event by other items than the two that are involved [Crane] |