Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Critical Common-Sensism', 'Commentary on Sentences' and 'The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory'

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6 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes

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Accidents always remain suited to a subject [Bonaventura]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / e. Vague objects

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Vagueness is a neglected but important part of mathematical thought [Peirce]

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All communication is vague, and is outside the principle of non-contradiction [Peirce]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 6. Successive Things

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Successive things reduce to permanent things [Bonaventura]

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 6. Falsification

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Observation can force rejection of some part of the initial set of claims [Duhem, by Boulter]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 6. Theory Holism

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Experiments only test groups of hypotheses, and can't show which one is wrong [Duhem]