5 ideas
| 9558 | All scientific tests will verify mathematics, so it is a background, not something being tested [Sober] |
| 7458 | The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking] |
| 17093 | Causation produces productive mechanisms; to understand the world, understand these mechanisms [Salmon] |
| 17492 | Salmon's interaction mechanisms needn't be regular, or involving any systems [Glennan on Salmon] |
| 3441 | If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace] |