6 ideas
| 5437 | The claim of hermeneutics to give knowledge through understanding is challenged by positivism [Mautner on Dilthey] |
| 5436 | Natural science seeks explanation; human sciences seek understanding [Dilthey, by Mautner] |
| 19745 | The nature of people is decided by the government and politics of their society [Rousseau] |
| 17371 | Some kinds are very explanatory, but others less so, and some not at all [Devitt] |
| 17373 | Species pluralism says there are several good accounts of what a species is [Devitt] |
| 17372 | The higher categories are not natural kinds, so the Linnaean hierarchy should be given up [Devitt] |