9 ideas
10304 | Very few things in set theory remain valid in intuitionist mathematics [Bernays] |
12394 | If the result is bad, we change the rule; if we like the rule, we reject the result [Goodman] |
10303 | Restricted Platonism is just an ideal projection of a domain of thought [Bernays] |
10306 | Mathematical abstraction just goes in a different direction from logic [Bernays] |
14292 | Dispositions seem more ethereal than behaviour; a non-occult account of them would be nice [Goodman] |
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] |
22489 | 'Good' is an attributive adjective like 'large', not predicative like 'red' [Geach, by Foot] |
4794 | We don't use laws to make predictions, we call things laws if we make predictions with them [Goodman] |