10 ideas
15527 | Defining terms either enables elimination, or shows that they don't require elimination [Lewis] |
16639 | Only individual bodies exist [Bacon] |
16033 | There are only individual bodies containing law-based powers, and the Forms are these laws [Bacon] |
15530 | A logically determinate name names the same thing in every possible world [Lewis] |
1556 | By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias] |
21950 | Science must clear away the idols of the mind if they are ever going to find the truth [Bacon] |
15528 | A Ramsey sentence just asserts that a theory can be realised, without saying by what [Lewis] |
15526 | There is a method for defining new scientific terms just using the terms we already understand [Lewis] |
15529 | It is better to have one realisation of a theory than many - but it may not always be possible [Lewis] |
15531 | The Ramsey sentence of a theory says that it has at least one realisation [Lewis] |