Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Value of Science', 'On the Source of Necessity' and 'On the Nature of Moral Values'

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3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth

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Science is sympathetic to truth as correspondence, since it depends on observation [Quine]

4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 3. Modal Logic Systems / g. System S4

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S4 says there must be some necessary truths (the actual ones, of which there is at least one) [Cameron]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity

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Blackburn fails to show that the necessary cannot be grounded in the contingent [Cameron]

14. Science / C. Induction / 2. Aims of Induction

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More careful inductions gradually lead to the hypothetico-deductive method [Quine]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / a. Nature of value

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Altruistic values concern other persons, and ceremonial values concern practices [Quine]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love

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Love seems to diminish with distance from oneself [Quine]

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]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / f. Eternalism

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The 'moving spotlight' theory makes one time privileged, while all times are on a par ontologically [Cameron]