11 ideas
22026 | Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis] |
9329 | Justification is coherence with a background system; if irrefutable, it is knowledge [Lehrer] |
18076 | Most theories are continually falsified [Kuhn, by Kitcher] |
22191 | Kuhn's scientists don't aim to falsifying their paradigm, because that is what they rely on [Kuhn, by Gorham] |
22183 | Switching scientific paradigms is a conversion experience [Kuhn] |
6162 | Kuhn has a description theory of reference, so the reference of 'electron' changes with the descriptions [Rowlands on Kuhn] |
22184 | Incommensurability assumes concepts get their meaning from within the theory [Kuhn, by Okasha] |
7619 | Galileo's notions can't be 'incommensurable' if we can fully describe them [Putnam on Kuhn] |
9330 | Generalization seems to be more fundamental to minds than spotting similarities [Lehrer] |
19591 | Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis] |
9328 | All conscious states can be immediately known when attention is directed to them [Lehrer] |