9 ideas
19463 | Induction assumes some uniformity in nature, or that in some respects the future is like the past [Ayer] |
19459 | To say 'I am not thinking' must be false, but it might have been true, so it isn't self-contradictory [Ayer] |
19460 | 'I know I exist' has no counterevidence, so it may be meaningless [Ayer] |
19461 | Knowing I exist reveals nothing at all about my nature [Ayer] |
20921 | How can we state relativism of sweet and sour, if they have no determinate nature? [Theophrastus] |
22137 | Observation can force rejection of some part of the initial set of claims [Duhem, by Boulter] |
19464 | We only discard a hypothesis after one failure if it appears likely to keep on failing [Ayer] |
18197 | Experiments only test groups of hypotheses, and can't show which one is wrong [Duhem] |
19462 | Induction passes from particular facts to other particulars, or to general laws, non-deductively [Ayer] |