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Pearl, J. 51
Penrose, Roger 186, 193
pessimistic meta-induction 28–35
philosophy
continental 320
of economics 10
of language 10
of medicine 10
of psychology 273
ordinary language 8
physical necessity 57, 84
see also laws
physicalism
nonreductive 93, 103–4
reductive 103–4
see also eliminative materialism,
emergence, reductionism
pilot wave theory (de Broglie’s) 212
Plank, Max 1
Plato 1
plausibility theory 168
pluralist(ism) 228, 326
Poincaré, Henri 1, 13, 31, 345, 180
Popper, Karl 3, 19, 154, 232, 238
positivism, logical 2, 5, 131, 273, 313
and experiment 131
see also Vienna Circle
possessed values 214
postmodernism 317–18
postulate, distribution 212
presentism 173
see also relativity
pre-Socratics 1
Priestley, J. 133
Primas, H. 87, 100–1
primatology 141
principle of retransmission of falsity 21
principle, reflection 165
probabilism, modest 156
probabilistic semantics 167
probability 22–6, 149
Baconian 167
classical interpretation of 23, 158
complex-valued 166
conditional 24, 157
frequency interpretations of 160
indeterminate/vague 166
Index
342
logical interpretation of 155, 159
non-additive theories of 166, 168
objective vs. purely epistemic 230
principle of direct 164
propensity interpretation of 161
subjectivist interpretations of 162
see also Bayesian, statistical relevancy and
inductive-statistical models of
explanation
problem of old evidence 26, 167
see also Bayesianism, confirmation
problem of the single case 161
program, genetic 252, 261
progress, scientific 133, 318
projectability 165
properties, spatio-temporal
geometric 174
identity 86
pseudo-process 44
see also causal process,
pseudo-Riemannian space 187
pseudoscience 3, 12
psychoanalytic theory 317
psycholinguistics 278
psychology
cognitive 110, 276
evolutionary 234
experimental 10
folk 92, 104
punctuated equilibrium 244, 255
see also evolution
pure state 96, 199
see also mixed state, quantum mechanics
Putnam, Hilary 31
qualia 286
quantum field theory 183, 217–21
particles in 219–21
topological 194
unitary implementability of 219–21
see also Standard Model
quantum fluctuations 114
quantum gravity 194, 217, 221
canonical 218
quantum mechanics 2, 94, 96–7, 100,
200
action-at-a-distance 18, 204