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All the ideas for 'The Value of Science', 'Neutral Relations' and 'talk'

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7 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations

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Language imposes a direction on a road which is not really part of the road [Fine,K]

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The 'standard' view of relations is that they hold of several objects in a given order [Fine,K]

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The 'positionalist' view of relations says the number of places is fixed, but not the order [Fine,K]

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A block on top of another contains one relation, not both 'on top of' and 'beneath' [Fine,K]

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Explain biased relations as orderings of the unbiased, or the unbiased as permutation classes of the biased? [Fine,K]

14. Science / C. Induction / 5. Paradoxes of Induction / b. Raven paradox

7006	Observing irrelevant items supports both 'all x are y' and 'all x are non-y', revealing its absurdity [Schofield,J]

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]