8 ideas
14919 | Empiricists deny what is unobservable, and reject objective modality [Fraassen] |
3570 | Maybe knowledge is belief which 'tracks' the truth [Nozick, by Williams,M] |
6783 | To 'accept' a theory is not to believe it, but to believe it empirically adequate [Fraassen, by Bird] |
2748 | A true belief isn't knowledge if it would be believed even if false. It should 'track the truth' [Nozick, by Dancy,J] |
14917 | To accept a scientific theory, we only need to believe that it is empirically adequate [Fraassen] |
6784 | Why should the true explanation be one of the few we have actually thought of? [Fraassen, by Bird] |
13066 | An explanation is just descriptive information answering a particular question [Fraassen, by Salmon] |
23803 | States have content if we can predict them well by assuming intentionality [Dennett, by Schulte] |