10 ideas
8956 | What is a singleton set, if a set is meant to be a collection of objects? [Szabó] |
12394 | If the result is bad, we change the rule; if we like the rule, we reject the result [Goodman] |
8953 | Abstract entities don't depend on their concrete entities ...but maybe on the totality of concrete things [Szabó] |
14292 | Dispositions seem more ethereal than behaviour; a non-occult account of them would be nice [Goodman] |
1556 | By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias] |
18749 | Goodman argued that the confirmation relation can never be formalised [Goodman, by Horsten/Pettigrew] |
17646 | Goodman showed that every sound inductive argument has an unsound one of the same form [Goodman, by Putnam] |
8954 | Geometrical circles cannot identify a circular paint patch, presumably because they lack something [Szabó] |
8955 | Abstractions are imperceptible, non-causal, and non-spatiotemporal (the third explaining the others) [Szabó] |
4794 | We don't use laws to make predictions, we call things laws if we make predictions with them [Goodman] |