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All the ideas for 'Science and Method', 'Causation' and 'On the Very Idea of a Third Dogma'

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 2. Geometry

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One geometry cannot be more true than another [Poincaré]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / a. Facts

8386	Events are picked out by descriptions, and facts by whole sentences [Crane]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / a. Translation

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Translation is too flimsy a notion to support theories of cultural incommensurability [Quine]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation

8387	A cause has its effects in virtue of its properties [Crane]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / a. Constant conjunction

8384	The regularity theory explains a causal event by other items than the two that are involved [Crane]