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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Reflections on my Critics' and 'Probabilistic Causality'

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5 ideas

3. Truth / H. Deflationary Truth / 2. Deflationary Truth

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'Truth' may only apply within a theory [Kuhn]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory

6809	Kuhn came to accept that all scientists agree on a particular set of values [Kuhn, by Bird]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 5. Commensurability

12128

In theory change, words shift their natural reference, so the theories are incommensurable [Kuhn]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / e. Probabilistic causation

8409	Probabilistic causal concepts are widely used in everyday life and in science [Salmon]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 1. God

6011	There is a remote first god (the Good), and a second god who organises the material world [Numenius, by O'Meara]