17 ideas
12394 | If the result is bad, we change the rule; if we like the rule, we reject the result [Goodman] |
23634 | Accepting the existence of anything presupposes the notion of existence [Reid] |
8978 | Events are made of other things, and are not fundamental to ontology [Bennett] |
14292 | Dispositions seem more ethereal than behaviour; a non-occult account of them would be nice [Goodman] |
23635 | Truths are self-evident to sensible persons who understand them clearly without prejudice [Reid] |
7631 | Sensation is not committed to any external object, but perception is [Reid] |
23637 | Primary qualities are the object of mathematics [Reid] |
23638 | Secondary qualities conjure up, and are confused with, the sensations which produce them [Reid] |
23639 | It is unclear whether a toothache is in the mind or in the tooth, but the word has a single meaning [Reid] |
6492 | Reid is seen as the main direct realist of the eighteenth century [Reid, by Robinson,H] |
23641 | People dislike believing without evidence, and try to avoid it [Reid] |
23642 | If non-rational evidence reaches us, it is reason which then makes use of it [Reid] |
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] |
23640 | Only mature minds can distinguish the qualities of a body [Reid] |
10364 | Facts are about the world, not in it, so they can't cause anything [Bennett] |
4794 | We don't use laws to make predictions, we call things laws if we make predictions with them [Goodman] |