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Expansion for Science

1046 1. Philosophy
623 2. Reason
626 3. Truth
784 4. Formal Logic
1241 5. Theory of Logic
1188 6. Mathematics
1039 7. Existence
881 8. Modes of Existence
1528 9. Objects
799 10. Modality
483 11. Knowledge Aims
709 12. Knowledge Sources
632 13. Knowledge Criteria
674 14. Science
A. Basis of Science
8 1. Observation
27 2. Demonstration
15 3. Experiment
18 4. Prediction
7 5. Anomalies
21 6. Falsification
B. Scientific Theories
39 1. Scientific Theory
15 2. Aim of Science
14 3. Instrumentalism
4 4. Paradigm
10 5. Commensurability
4 6. Theory Holism
7 7. Scientific Models
8 8. Ramsey Sentences
C. Induction
27 1. Induction
14 2. Aims of Induction
32 3. Limits of Induction
12 4. Reason in Induction
20 5. Paradoxes of Induction a. Grue problem
16 b. Raven paradox
19 6. Bayes's Theorem
D. Explanation
18 1. Explanation a. Explanation
26 b. Aims of explanation
6 c. Direction of explanation
3 d. Explaining people
34 2. Types of Explanation a. Types of explanation
4 b. Contrastive explanations
14 c. Explanations by coherence
3 d. Consilience
35 e. Lawlike explanations
5 f. Necessity in explanations
32 g. Causal explanations
4 h. Explanations by function
32 i. Explanations by mechanism
14 j. Explanations by reduction
35 k. Explanations by essence
7 l. Probabilistic explanations
5 m. Explanation by proof
26 3. Best Explanation a. Best explanation
12 b. Ultimate explanation
11 c. Against best explanation
9 4. Explanation Doubts a. Explanation as pragmatic
2 b. Rejecting explanation
545 15. Nature of Minds
488 16. Persons
495 17. Mind and Body
856 18. Thought
835 19. Language
311 20. Action
264 21. Aesthetics
957 22. Metaethics
983 23. Ethics
911 24. Political Theory
748 25. Social Practice
991 26. Natural Theory
712 27. Natural Reality
428 28. God
296 29. Religion