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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Structure of Scientific Revolutions (2nd ed)' and 'works'

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9 ideas

4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 3. Modal Logic Systems / h. System S5

7791	The simplest of the logics based on possible worlds is Lewis's S5 [Lewis,CI, by Girle]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 2. Nature of Necessity

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Equating necessity with informal provability is the S4 conception of necessity [Lewis,CI, by Read]

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

18076

Most theories are continually falsified [Kuhn, by Kitcher]

22191

Kuhn's scientists don't aim to falsifying their paradigm, because that is what they rely on [Kuhn, by Gorham]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 4. Paradigm

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Switching scientific paradigms is a conversion experience [Kuhn]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 5. Commensurability

6162	Kuhn has a description theory of reference, so the reference of 'electron' changes with the descriptions [Rowlands on Kuhn]

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Incommensurability assumes concepts get their meaning from within the theory [Kuhn, by Okasha]

7619	Galileo's notions can't be 'incommensurable' if we can fully describe them [Putnam on Kuhn]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

468	Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]