Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Einstein,A/Infeld,L, Robert B. Brandom and Nuel D. Belnap

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5 ideas

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 2. Correspondence to Facts

10355

Facts can't make claims true, because they are true claims [Brandom, by Kusch]

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

19000

Read 'all ravens are black' as about ravens, not as about an implication [Belnap]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / a. Types of explanation

17897

Analytic explanation is wholes in terms of parts; synthetic is parts in terms of wholes or contexts [Belnap]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use

7765	The use of a sentence is its commitments and entitlements [Brandom, by Lycan]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / b. Fields

18202

The concept of a field gradually replaced the substances in explaining relations between charges [Einstein/Infeld]