7 ideas
14919 | Empiricists deny what is unobservable, and reject objective modality [Fraassen] |
23559 | We have the concept of 'knowledge' as a label for good informants [Craig, by Fricker,M] |
6783 | To 'accept' a theory is not to believe it, but to believe it empirically adequate [Fraassen, by Bird] |
17503 | Theories can never represent accurately, because their components are abstract [Cartwright,N, by Portides] |
14917 | To accept a scientific theory, we only need to believe that it is empirically adequate [Fraassen] |
6784 | Why should the true explanation be one of the few we have actually thought of? [Fraassen, by Bird] |
13066 | An explanation is just descriptive information answering a particular question [Fraassen, by Salmon] |