Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Anaxarchus, David Galloway and Thomas S. Kuhn
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14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 6. Falsification
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Most theories are continually falsified [Kuhn, by Kitcher]
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Kuhn's scientists don't aim to falsifying their paradigm, because that is what they rely on [Kuhn, by Gorham]
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14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory
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Kuhn came to accept that all scientists agree on a particular set of values [Kuhn, by Bird]
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14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 4. Paradigm
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Switching scientific paradigms is a conversion experience [Kuhn]
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14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 5. Commensurability
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Kuhn has a description theory of reference, so the reference of 'electron' changes with the descriptions [Rowlands on Kuhn]
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Incommensurability assumes concepts get their meaning from within the theory [Kuhn, by Okasha]
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Galileo's notions can't be 'incommensurable' if we can fully describe them [Putnam on Kuhn]
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In theory change, words shift their natural reference, so the theories are incommensurable [Kuhn]
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