16 ideas
| 7454 | Gassendi is the first great empiricist philosopher [Hacking] |
| 9358 | There are several logics, none of which will ever derive falsehoods from truth [Lewis,CI] |
| 9357 | Excluded middle is just our preference for a simplified dichotomy in experience [Lewis,CI] |
| 9364 | Names represent a uniformity in experience, or they name nothing [Lewis,CI] |
| 9362 | Necessary truths are those we will maintain no matter what [Lewis,CI] |
| 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] |
| 9365 | We can maintain a priori principles come what may, but we can also change them [Lewis,CI] |
| 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] |
| 18284 | Particulars can be verified or falsified, but general statements can only be falsified (conclusively) [Popper] |
| 7459 | Follow maths for necessary truths, and jurisprudence for contingent truths [Hacking] |
| 9361 | We have to separate the mathematical from physical phenomena by abstraction [Lewis,CI] |
| 9363 | Science seeks classification which will discover laws, essences, and predictions [Lewis,CI] |