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Ideas for 'works', 'The Rationality of Science' and 'What is so bad about Contradictions?'

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1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 1. Nature of Wisdom

23890

For Plato true wisdom is supernatural [Plato, by Weil]

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / b. Pre-Socratic philosophy

3060	Plato never mentions Democritus, and wished to burn his books [Plato, by Diog. Laertius]

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]