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'works', 'Presentation of Self in Everyday Life' and 'Structure of Scientific Revolutions (2nd ed)'
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14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory
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Plato says sciences are unified around Forms; Aristotle says they're unified around substance [Aristotle, by Moravcsik]
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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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