12 ideas
| 7454 | Gassendi is the first great empiricist philosopher [Hacking] |
| 14248 | We could accept the integers as primitive, then use sets to construct the rest [Cohen] |
| 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] |
| 12314 | Audience-relative explanation, or metaphysical explanation based on information? [Stanford] |
| 12313 | Explanation is for curiosity, control, understanding, to make meaningful, or to give authority [Stanford] |
| 7459 | Follow maths for necessary truths, and jurisprudence for contingent truths [Hacking] |
| 12315 | We can explain by showing constitution, as well as showing causes [Stanford] |