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Ideas for 'The Rationality of Science', 'Philosophy of Science' and 'New Essays on Human Understanding'

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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 6. Verisimilitude

3861	Theories generate infinite truths and falsehoods, so they cannot be used to assess probability [Newton-Smith]

3869	More truthful theories have greater predictive power [Newton-Smith]

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth

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Truth is correspondence between mental propositions and what they are about [Leibniz]