Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Einstein,A/Infeld,L, Saunders MacLane and Paul Feyerabend

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4 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 1. Aims of Science

6601	Science rules the globe because of colonising power, not inherent rationality [Feyerabend]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / a. Axioms for sets

18189

ZFC could contain a contradiction, and it can never prove its own consistency [MacLane]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 6. Theory Holism

2561	For Feyerabend the meaning of a term depends on a whole theory [Feyerabend, by Rorty]

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]