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Ideas for 'The Elm and the Expert', 'Ways of Worldmaking' and 'Modal and Anti-Luck Epistemology'

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14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 3. Experiment

2454	We can deliberately cause ourselves to have true thoughts - hence the value of experiments [Fodor]

2455	Interrogation and experiment submit us to having beliefs caused [Fodor]

2461	An experiment is a deliberate version of what informal thinking does all the time [Fodor]

2460	Participation in an experiment requires agreement about what the outcome will mean [Fodor]

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

2458	Theories are links in the causal chain between the environment and our beliefs [Fodor]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 3. Instrumentalism

17658

Users of digital thermometers recognise no temperatures in the gaps [Goodman]

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

17650

We lack frames of reference to transform physics, biology and psychology into one another [Goodman]

14. Science / C. Induction / 5. Paradoxes of Induction / a. Grue problem

17655

Grue and green won't be in the same world, as that would block induction entirely [Goodman]