8 ideas
18170 | The Axiom of Reducibility is self-effacing: if true, it isn't needed [Quine] |
15785 | Our commitments are to an 'ontology', but also to an 'ideology', or conceptual system [Hintikka] |
14919 | Empiricists deny what is unobservable, and reject objective modality [Fraassen] |
15786 | Commitment to possible worlds is part of our ideology, not part of our ontology [Hintikka] |
6783 | To 'accept' a theory is not to believe it, but to believe it empirically adequate [Fraassen, by Bird] |
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] |