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All the ideas for 'Course of Positive Philosophy', 'Explanatory Coherence' and 'Foucault: a very short introduction'

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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / d. Nineteenth century philosophy

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Since Kant, self-criticism has been part of philosophy [Gutting]

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 2. Positivism

7491	The phases of human thought are theological, then metaphysical, then positivist [Comte, by Watson]

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 4. Linguistic Structuralism

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Structuralism describes human phenomena in terms of unconscious structures [Gutting]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / c. Explanations by coherence

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1: Coherence is a symmetrical relation between two propositions [Thagard, by Smart]

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2: An explanation must wholly cohere internally, and with the new fact [Thagard, by Smart]

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3: If an analogous pair explain another analogous pair, then they all cohere [Thagard, by Smart]

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4: For coherence, observation reports have a degree of intrinsic acceptability [Thagard, by Smart]

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5: Contradictory propositions incohere [Thagard, by Smart]

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6: A proposition's acceptability depends on its coherence with a system [Thagard, by Smart]