Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'works', 'Brandom on Social Practices and Representations' and 'Scientific Explanation'

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4 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy

19090

If we can't check our language against experience, philosophy is just comparing beliefs and words [Rorty]

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 1. Aims of Science

6782	Realism is the only philosophy of science that doesn't make the success of science a miracle [Putnam]

2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 4. Circularity

9355	One sort of circularity presupposes a premise, the other presupposes a rule being used [Braithwaite, by Devitt]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism

22181

Putnam says anti-realism is a bad explanation of accurate predictions [Putnam, by Okasha]