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

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

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]

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

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Goodman argued that the confirmation relation can never be formalised [Goodman, by Horsten/Pettigrew]

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Goodman showed that every sound inductive argument has an unsound one of the same form [Goodman, by Putnam]