13 ideas
| 8594 | People have had good reasons for thinking that the circle has been squared [Shoemaker] |
| 12394 | If the result is bad, we change the rule; if we like the rule, we reject the result [Goodman] |
| 10800 | The values of variables can't determine existence, because they are just expressions [Ryle, by Quine] |
| 8596 | Inability to measure equality doesn't make all lengths unequal [Shoemaker] |
| 8597 | We couldn't verify the earth's rotation if everyone simultaneously fell asleep [Shoemaker] |
| 14292 | Dispositions seem more ethereal than behaviour; a non-occult account of them would be nice [Goodman] |
| 8593 | Maybe billions of changeless years have elapsed since my last meal [Shoemaker] |
| 18749 | Goodman argued that the confirmation relation can never be formalised [Goodman, by Horsten/Pettigrew] |
| 17646 | Goodman showed that every sound inductive argument has an unsound one of the same form [Goodman, by Putnam] |
| 8598 | If things turn red for an hour and then explode, we wouldn't say the redness was the cause [Shoemaker] |
| 4794 | We don't use laws to make predictions, we call things laws if we make predictions with them [Goodman] |
| 4226 | If three regions 'freeze' every three, four and five years, after sixty years everything stops for a year [Shoemaker, by Lowe] |
| 8595 | If three regions freeze every 3rd, 4th and 5th year, they all freeze together every 60 years [Shoemaker] |