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Ideas for 'The Value of Science', 'How Things Might Have Been' and 'The philosophical basis of intuitionist logic'

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26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 6. Necessity of Kinds

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Maybe the identity of kinds is necessary, but instances being of that kind is not [Mackie,P]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature

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The aim of science is just to create a comprehensive, elegant language to describe brute facts [Poincaré, by Harré]