10 ideas
| 14919 | Empiricists deny what is unobservable, and reject objective modality [Fraassen] |
| 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] |
| 7506 | God made man in his own image [Anon (Tor)] |
| 13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
| 16782 | The names of all the types of creature were given forever by Adam [Anon (Tor)] |
| 20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |
| 4013 | And God saw the light, that it was good [Anon (Tor)] |