14 ideas
| 7454 | Gassendi is the first great empiricist philosopher [Hacking] |
| 8978 | Events are made of other things, and are not fundamental to ontology [Bennett] |
| 12177 | Human artefacts may have essences, in their purposes [Popper] |
| 7447 | Probability was fully explained between 1654 and 1812 [Hacking] |
| 7448 | Probability is statistical (behaviour of chance devices) or epistemological (belief based on evidence) [Hacking] |
| 7449 | Epistemological probability based either on logical implications or coherent judgments [Hacking] |
| 7450 | In the medieval view, only deduction counted as true evidence [Hacking] |
| 7451 | Formerly evidence came from people; the new idea was that things provided evidence [Hacking] |
| 7452 | An experiment is a test, or an adventure, or a diagnosis, or a dissection [Hacking, by PG] |
| 7459 | Follow maths for necessary truths, and jurisprudence for contingent truths [Hacking] |
| 12176 | Science does not aim at ultimate explanations [Popper] |
| 10364 | Facts are about the world, not in it, so they can't cause anything [Bennett] |
| 12175 | Galilean science aimed at true essences, as the ultimate explanations [Popper] |
| 12179 | Essentialist views of science prevent further questions from being raised [Popper] |