Here's Hayek's formal paper on a lot of these ideas: http://philrsss.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/Philosophical%20Heuristics%20and%20Creativity.final-2.pdf h

Here's Hayek's formal paper on a lot of these ideas: http://philrsss.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/Philosophical%20Heuristics%20and%20Creativity.final-2.pdf http://philrsss.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/Philosophical... Nick Beckstead once told me informally that new philosophical ideas can usually be classified as one of these: arguments (in the sense of formal logic, with premises and conclusions), examples (e.g., intuition pumps), and distinctions (e.g., normative vs. positive statements).