Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Reference and Contingency' and 'The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory'

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5 ideas

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity

490	Everything happens by reason and necessity [Leucippus]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 5. Contingency

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'Superficial' contingency: false in some world; 'Deep' contingency: no obvious verification [Evans, by Macià/Garcia-Carpentiro]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / b. Rigid designation

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Rigid designators can be meaningful even if empty [Evans, by Mackie,P]

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 6. Falsification

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Observation can force rejection of some part of the initial set of claims [Duhem, by Boulter]

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

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Experiments only test groups of hypotheses, and can't show which one is wrong [Duhem]