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'works', 'Mental Acts: their content and their objects' and 'Reasoning and the Logic of Things'
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14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 2. Demonstration
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If each inference slightly reduced our certainty, science would soon be in trouble [Peirce]
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14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory
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I classify science by level of abstraction; principles derive from above, and data from below [Peirce]
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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 / C. Induction / 2. Aims of Induction
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'Induction' doesn't capture Greek 'epagoge', which is singulars in a mass producing the general [Peirce]
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14. Science / C. Induction / 3. Limits of Induction
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How does induction get started? [Peirce]
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Induction can never prove that laws have no exceptions [Peirce]
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The worst fallacy in induction is generalising one recondite property from a sample [Peirce]
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14. Science / D. Explanation / 1. Explanation / a. Explanation
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Aristotelian explanations are facts, while modern explanations depend on human conceptions [Aristotle, by Politis]
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14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / a. Types of explanation
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Aristotle's standard analysis of species and genus involves specifying things in terms of something more general [Aristotle, by Benardete,JA]
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14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / k. Explanations by essence
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Aristotle regularly says that essential properties explain other significant properties [Aristotle, by Kung]
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14. Science / D. Explanation / 4. Explanation Doubts / b. Rejecting explanation
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Men often answer inner 'whys' by treating unconscious instincts as if they were reasons [Peirce]
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