Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Issues of Pragmaticism', 'The Value of Science' and 'on Goodman's 'Ways of Worldmaking''

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

---

3 ideas

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism

18438

Every worldly event, without exception, is a redistribution of microphysical states [Quine]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 1. Meaning

19087

The meaning or purport of a symbol is all the rational conduct it would lead to [Peirce]

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

15877

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