8 ideas
6855 | Interesting philosophers hardly every give you explicitly valid arguments [Martin,M] |
6856 | Valid arguments can be rejected by challenging the premises or presuppositions [Martin,M] |
8979 | Slow and continuous events (like balding or tree-growth) are called 'processes', not 'events' [Simons] |
8981 | Maybe processes behave like stuff-nouns, and events like count-nouns [Simons] |
8973 | Einstein's relativity brought events into ontology, as the terms of a simultaneity relationships [Simons] |
6857 | An error theory of perception says our experience is not as it seems to be [Martin,M] |
2799 | Bayes' theorem explains why very surprising predictions have a higher value as evidence [Horwich] |
2798 | Probability of H, given evidence E, is prob(H) x prob(E given H) / prob(E) [Horwich] |