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Ideas for 'Ways of Worldmaking', 'Categories' and 'The Rationality of Science'

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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 2. Invocation to Philosophy

1695	Without extensive examination firm statements are hard, but studying the difficulties is profitable [Aristotle]

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis

17651

Without words or other symbols, we have no world [Goodman]

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 1. Aims of Science

3859	We do not wish merely to predict, we also want to explain [Newton-Smith]

3870	The real problem of science is how to choose between possible explanations [Newton-Smith]

3853	For science to be rational, we must explain scientific change rationally [Newton-Smith]

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 2. Positivism

3855	Critics attack positivist division between theory and observation [Newton-Smith]

3854	Positivists hold that theoretical terms change, but observation terms don't [Newton-Smith]