Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'works', 'Positivism and Realism' and 'Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

3 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics

13737

The empiricist says that metaphysics is meaningless, rather than false [Schlick]

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 3. Contradiction

10121

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor lack of contradiction a sign of truth [Pascal]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / j. Explanations by reduction

20653

Six reduction levels: groups, lives, cells, molecules, atoms, particles [Putnam/Oppenheim, by Watson]