14 ideas
| 15842 | An ad hominem refutation is reasonable, if it uses the opponent's assumptions [Harte,V] |
| 15841 | Mereology began as a nominalist revolt against the commitments of set theory [Harte,V] |
| 12394 | If the result is bad, we change the rule; if we like the rule, we reject the result [Goodman] |
| 15858 | Traditionally, the four elements are just what persists through change [Harte,V] |
| 14292 | Dispositions seem more ethereal than behaviour; a non-occult account of them would be nice [Goodman] |
| 15848 | Mereology treats constitution as a criterion of identity, as shown in the axiom of extensionality [Harte,V] |
| 15837 | What exactly is a 'sum', and what exactly is 'composition'? [Harte,V] |
| 15839 | If something is 'more than' the sum of its parts, is the extra thing another part, or not? [Harte,V] |
| 15838 | The problem with the term 'sum' is that it is singular [Harte,V] |
| 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] |