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Ideas for Hermarchus, Thomas Mautner and Lord Kelvin (Wm Thomson)

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14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory

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You have only begun to do real science when you can express it in numbers [Kelvin]

14. Science / C. Induction / 5. Paradoxes of Induction / a. Grue problem

4783	Observing lots of green x can confirm 'all x are green' or 'all x are grue', where 'grue' is arbitrary [Mautner, by PG]

14. Science / C. Induction / 5. Paradoxes of Induction / b. Raven paradox

4782	'All x are y' is equivalent to 'all non-y are non-x', so observing paper is white confirms 'ravens are black' [Mautner, by PG]