Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Scientific Explanation', 'Popular Scientific Lectures' and 'works'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

4 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 2. Positivism

15873

Laws of nature are just records of regularities and correlations, with concepts to make recording them easier [Mach, by Harré]

2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 4. Circularity

9355	One sort of circularity presupposes a premise, the other presupposes a rule being used [Braithwaite, by Devitt]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 4. Axioms for Number / a. Axioms for numbers

3338	Numbers have been defined in terms of 'successors' to the concept of 'zero' [Peano, by Blackburn]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 4. Axioms for Number / d. Peano arithmetic

5897	0 is a non-successor number, all successors are numbers, successors can't duplicate, if P(n) and P(n+1) then P(all-n) [Peano, by Flew]