8 ideas
14919 | Empiricists deny what is unobservable, and reject objective modality [Fraassen] |
23900 | Chance is compatible with necessity, and the two occur together [Weil] |
6783 | To 'accept' a theory is not to believe it, but to believe it empirically adequate [Fraassen, by Bird] |
14917 | To accept a scientific theory, we only need to believe that it is empirically adequate [Fraassen] |
6784 | Why should the true explanation be one of the few we have actually thought of? [Fraassen, by Bird] |
13066 | An explanation is just descriptive information answering a particular question [Fraassen, by Salmon] |
23899 | The secret of art is that beauty is a just blend of unity and its opposite [Weil] |
22489 | 'Good' is an attributive adjective like 'large', not predicative like 'red' [Geach, by Foot] |