9 ideas
12394 | If the result is bad, we change the rule; if we like the rule, we reject the result [Goodman] |
17783 | A number is not a multitude, but a unified ratio between quantities [Newton] |
12354 | A 'categorial' property is had by virtue of being or having an item from a category [Wedin] |
14292 | Dispositions seem more ethereal than behaviour; a non-occult account of them would be nice [Goodman] |
12358 | Substance is a principle and a kind of cause [Wedin] |
12346 | Form explains why some matter is of a certain kind, and that is explanatory bedrock [Wedin] |
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] |
4794 | We don't use laws to make predictions, we call things laws if we make predictions with them [Goodman] |