9 ideas
22820 | Early Romantics sought a plurality of systems, in a quest for freedom [Hösle] |
12394 | If the result is bad, we change the rule; if we like the rule, we reject the result [Goodman] |
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] |
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] |
22819 | In the 18th century history came to be seen as progressive, rather than cyclical [Hösle] |
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] |