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Ideas for 'The Rationality of Science', 'Naming and Necessity lectures' and 'The Life of Reason'

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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 1. History of Philosophy

8000	He who is ignorant of the history of philosophy is doomed to repeat it [Santayana, by MacIntyre]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 2. Possibility of Metaphysics

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Kripke separated semantics from metaphysics, rather than linking them, making the latter independent [Kripke, by Stalnaker]

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 4. Conceptual Analysis

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Analyses of concepts using entirely different terms are very inclined to fail [Kripke]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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