Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Steven Weinberg, H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim and Claude Lvi-Strauss

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3 ideas

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 4. Linguistic Structuralism

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Basic to human culture are binary oppositions, such as eating raw or cooked [Levi-Strauss, by Green,TH]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / b. Indispensability of mathematics

8732	It is spooky the way mathematics anticipates physics [Weinberg]

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

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