8 ideas
18776 | Contextual definitions eliminate descriptions from contexts [Linsky,B] |
12394 | If the result is bad, we change the rule; if we like the rule, we reject the result [Goodman] |
18774 | Definite descriptions, unlike proper names, have a logical structure [Linsky,B] |
14292 | Dispositions seem more ethereal than behaviour; a non-occult account of them would be nice [Goodman] |
19284 | Asserting a necessity just expresses our inability to imagine it is false [Blackburn] |
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] |
4794 | We don't use laws to make predictions, we call things laws if we make predictions with them [Goodman] |