20 ideas
17651 | Without words or other symbols, we have no world [Goodman] |
19463 | Induction assumes some uniformity in nature, or that in some respects the future is like the past [Ayer] |
17652 | Truth is irrelevant if no statements are involved [Goodman] |
17656 | Being primitive or prior always depends on a constructional system [Goodman] |
17661 | We don't recognise patterns - we invent them [Goodman] |
17659 | Reality is largely a matter of habit [Goodman] |
17657 | We build our world, and ignore anything that won't fit [Goodman] |
17654 | A world can be full of variety or not, depending on how we sort it [Goodman] |
17653 | Things can only be judged the 'same' by citing some respect of sameness [Goodman] |
19459 | To say 'I am not thinking' must be false, but it might have been true, so it isn't self-contradictory [Ayer] |
19460 | 'I know I exist' has no counterevidence, so it may be meaningless [Ayer] |
19461 | Knowing I exist reveals nothing at all about my nature [Ayer] |
17660 | Discovery is often just finding a fit, like a jigsaw puzzle [Goodman] |
19464 | We only discard a hypothesis after one failure if it appears likely to keep on failing [Ayer] |
17658 | Users of digital thermometers recognise no temperatures in the gaps [Goodman] |
17650 | We lack frames of reference to transform physics, biology and psychology into one another [Goodman] |
19462 | Induction passes from particular facts to other particulars, or to general laws, non-deductively [Ayer] |
17655 | Grue and green won't be in the same world, as that would block induction entirely [Goodman] |
7667 | There are two sides to men - the pleasantly social, and the violent and creative [Diderot, by Berlin] |
17649 | If the world is one it has many aspects, and if there are many worlds they will collect into one [Goodman] |