11 ideas
8828 | Truth is rational acceptability [Putnam] |
12394 | If the result is bad, we change the rule; if we like the rule, we reject the result [Goodman] |
17644 | Metaphysical realism is committed to there being one ultimate true theory [Putnam] |
17648 | It is an illusion to think there could be one good scientific theory of reality [Putnam] |
14292 | Dispositions seem more ethereal than behaviour; a non-occult account of them would be nice [Goodman] |
17643 | Shape is essential relative to 'statue', but not essential relative to 'clay' [Putnam] |
17642 | The old view that sense data are independent of mind is quite dotty [Putnam] |
18749 | Goodman argued that the confirmation relation can never be formalised [Goodman, by Horsten/Pettigrew] |
17646 | Goodman showed that every sound inductive argument has an unsound one of the same form [Goodman, by Putnam] |
17645 | An alien might think oxygen was the main cause of a forest fire [Putnam] |
4794 | We don't use laws to make predictions, we call things laws if we make predictions with them [Goodman] |