12 ideas
6602 | Philosophy is like a statue which is worshipped but never advances [Bacon] |
12801 | Coherentists seek relations among beliefs that are simple, conservative and explanatory [Foley] |
8568 | A property is merely a constituent of laws of nature; temperature is just part of thermodynamics [Mellor] |
8564 | There is obviously a possible predicate for every property [Mellor] |
8566 | We need universals for causation and laws of nature; the latter give them their identity [Mellor] |
8565 | If properties were just the meanings of predicates, they couldn't give predicates their meaning [Mellor] |
16724 | The senses deceive, but also show their own errors [Bacon] |
12800 | Externalists want to understand knowledge, Internalists want to understand justification [Foley] |
12802 | We aren't directly pragmatic about belief, but pragmatic about the deliberation which precedes it [Foley] |
12803 | Justification comes from acceptable procedures, given practical constraints [Foley] |
6603 | Nature is revealed when we put it under pressure rather than observe it [Bacon] |
8567 | Singular causation requires causes to raise the physical probability of their effects [Mellor] |