"From any vocabulary of ideas we can build other ideas by formal combinations of signs. But not any set of ideas will …"

"We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in…"

"To conclude: there are two well-known minor ways in which language has mattered to philosophy. On the one hand there …"

"Kuhn cannot take seriously that “there is some one full, objective, true account of nature.” Does this mean that he d…"

"Notice that there is no sociology in the book. Scientific communities and their practices are, however, at its core, …"

"Well, he wasn't a relativist. There's a long and complicated story of the rise of a desire for scientific relativism.…"

"There are two ways in which a science develops; in response to problems which is itself creates, and in response to p…"

"Pascal is called the founder of modern probability theory. He earns this title not only for the familiar corresponden…"

"Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology."

"Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it."