9 ideas
22026 | Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis] |
12772 | Philosophy is a value- and attitude-driven enterprise [Fraassen] |
12771 | Is it likely that a successful, coherent, explanatory ontological hypothesis is true? [Fraassen] |
14799 | Metaphysics rests on observations, but ones so common we hardly notice them [Peirce] |
12773 | Analytic philosophy has an exceptional arsenal of critical tools [Fraassen] |
12770 | We may end up with a huge theory of carefully constructed falsehoods [Fraassen] |
12769 | Inference to best explanation contains all sorts of hidden values [Fraassen] |
12768 | We accept many scientific theories without endorsing them as true [Fraassen] |
19591 | Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis] |