12 ideas
| 21750 | Science is sympathetic to truth as correspondence, since it depends on observation [Quine] |
| 17488 | Empiricist theories are sets of laws, which give explanations and reductions [Glennan] |
| 21748 | More careful inductions gradually lead to the hypothetico-deductive method [Quine] |
| 17493 | Modern mechanism need parts with spatial, temporal and function facts, and diagrams [Glennan] |
| 17487 | Mechanistic philosophy of science is an alternative to the empiricist law-based tradition [Glennan] |
| 17489 | Mechanisms are either systems of parts or sequences of activities [Glennan] |
| 17490 | 17th century mechanists explained everything by the kinetic physical fundamentals [Glennan] |
| 17491 | Unlike the lawlike approach, mechanistic explanation can allow for exceptions [Glennan] |
| 6040 | There is no universal goal to human life [Aenesidemus, by Photius] |
| 21749 | Altruistic values concern other persons, and ceremonial values concern practices [Quine] |
| 21751 | Love seems to diminish with distance from oneself [Quine] |
| 17494 | Since causal events are related by mechanisms, causation can be analysed in that way [Glennan] |