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Ideas for 'Meaning and the Moral Sciences', 'Against Dryness: a polemical sketch' and 'Reflections on my Critics'

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14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory

6809	Kuhn came to accept that all scientists agree on a particular set of values [Kuhn, by Bird]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 5. Commensurability

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In theory change, words shift their natural reference, so the theories are incommensurable [Kuhn]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 4. Explanation Doubts / a. Explanation as pragmatic

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You can't decide which explanations are good if you don't attend to the interest-relative aspects [Putnam]