8 ideas
| 18200 | Very large sets should be studied in an 'if-then' spirit [Putnam] |
| 18199 | Indispensability strongly supports predicative sets, and somewhat supports impredicative sets [Putnam] |
| 8857 | We must quantify over numbers for science; but that commits us to their existence [Putnam] |
| 7458 | The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking] |
| 17527 | Causation seems to be an innate concept (or acquired very early) [Bird] |
| 3441 | If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace] |
| 17528 | The dispositional account explains causation, as stimulation and manifestation of dispositions [Bird] |
| 17526 | The counterfactual approach makes no distinction between cause and pre-condition [Bird] |