16 ideas
| 17596 | Coherence problems have positive and negative restraints; solutions maximise constraint satisfaction [Thagard] |
| 17597 | Coherence is explanatory, deductive, conceptual, analogical, perceptual, and deliberative [Thagard] |
| 17598 | Explanatory coherence needs symmetry,explanation,analogy,data priority, contradiction,competition,acceptance [Thagard] |
| 18889 | Ostensive definitions needn't involve pointing, but must refer to something specific [Salmon,N] |
| 17602 | Verisimilitude comes from including more phenomena, and revealing what underlies [Thagard] |
| 14627 | S4, and therefore S5, are invalid for metaphysical modality [Salmon,N, by Williamson] |
| 8203 | All the arithmetical entities can be reduced to classes of integers, and hence to sets [Quine] |
| 18888 | Essentialism says some properties must be possessed, if a thing is to exist [Salmon,N] |
| 17601 | Neither a priori rationalism nor sense data empiricism account for scientific knowledge [Thagard] |
| 17600 | Bayesian inference is forced to rely on approximations [Thagard] |
| 17599 | The best theory has the highest subjective (Bayesian) probability? [Thagard] |
| 8202 | Meaning is essence divorced from things and wedded to words [Quine] |
| 18886 | Frege's 'sense' solves four tricky puzzles [Salmon,N] |
| 18887 | The perfect case of direct reference is a variable which has been assigned a value [Salmon,N] |
| 8201 | The distinction between meaning and further information is as vague as the essence/accident distinction [Quine] |
| 18891 | Nothing in the direct theory of reference blocks anti-essentialism; water structure might have been different [Salmon,N] |