Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, Isaac Beeckman 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]

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

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

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / j. Explanations by reduction

20653

Six reduction levels: groups, lives, cells, molecules, atoms, particles [Putnam/Oppenheim, by Watson]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / b. Corpuscles

16707

Cold and hot are the swiftness and slowness of corpuscular motion [Beeckman]