11 ideas
| 11257 | The Pythagoreans were the first to offer definitions [Politis, by Politis] |
| 11235 | 'True of' is applicable to things, while 'true' is applicable to words [Politis] |
| 12394 | If the result is bad, we change the rule; if we like the rule, we reject the result [Goodman] |
| 11277 | Maybe 'What is being? is confusing because we can't ask what non-being is like [Politis] |
| 14292 | Dispositions seem more ethereal than behaviour; a non-occult account of them would be nice [Goodman] |
| 11248 | Necessary truths can be two-way relational, where essential truths are one-way or intrinsic [Politis] |
| 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] |
| 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] |
| 20820 | Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus] |