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All the ideas for 'The Value of Science', 'Inventing Logical Necessity' and 'Meditatio de principio individui'

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4 ideas

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 6. Logical Necessity

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Logical necessity involves a decision about usage, and is non-realist and non-cognitive [Wright,C, by McFetridge]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism

7320	Holism cannot give a coherent account of scientific methodology [Wright,C, by Miller,A]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

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Causes can be inferred from perfect knowledge of their effects [Leibniz]

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

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