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Ideas of Tim Button, by Text
[British, fl. 2006, Graduate student at Cambridge and Harvard. Lecturer at St John's, Cambridge.]
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2013
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The Limits of Reason
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01.1-3
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p.8
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Realists believe in independent objects, correspondence, and fallibility of all theories
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02.1
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p.14
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18693
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Indeterminacy arguments say if a theory can be made true, it has multiple versions
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02.1
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p.15
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18694
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Permutation Theorem: any theory with a decent model has lots of models
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02.2
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p.17
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An ideal theory can't be wholly false, because its consistency implies a true model
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02.3
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p.18
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18696
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The vagueness of truthmaker claims makes it easier to run anti-realist arguments
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03.4
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p.23
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18697
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A sentence's truth conditions are all the situations where it would be true
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05.1
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p.33
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18698
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Predictions give the 'content' of theories, which can then be 'equivalent' or 'adequate'
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07.2
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p.56
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18700
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Cartesian scepticism doubts what is true; Kantian scepticism doubts that it is sayable
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14.2
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p.143
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The coherence theory says truth is coherence of thoughts, and not about objects
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