12 ideas
12394 | If the result is bad, we change the rule; if we like the rule, we reject the result [Goodman] |
16489 | Is it possible to state every possible truth about the whole course of nature without using 'not'? [Russell] |
14292 | Dispositions seem more ethereal than behaviour; a non-occult account of them would be nice [Goodman] |
16490 | Some facts about experience feel like logical necessities [Russell] |
16488 | It is hard to explain how a sentence like 'it is not raining' can be found true by observation [Russell] |
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] |
16491 | If we define 'this is not blue' as disbelief in 'this is blue', we eliminate 'not' as an ingredient of facts [Russell] |
13304 | Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius] |
4794 | We don't use laws to make predictions, we call things laws if we make predictions with them [Goodman] |
4786 | Russell's 'at-at' theory says motion is to be at the intervening points at the intervening instants [Russell, by Psillos] |
20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |