Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Certain Physical Essays', 'Preface to 'De Revolutionibus'' and 'talk'

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

---

4 ideas

14. Science / D. Explanation / 1. Explanation / b. Aims of explanation

16736

Explanation is generally to deduce it from something better known, which comes in degrees [Boyle]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / e. Lawlike explanations

15282

Facts should be deducible from the theory and initial conditions, and prefer the simpler theory [Osiander, by Harré/Madden]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 3. Best Explanation / b. Ultimate explanation

16737

The best explanations get down to primary basics, but others go less deep [Boyle]

24. Political Theory / B. Nature of a State / 5. Culture

21432

Culture is the struggle to agree what is normal [Gibson,A]