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All the ideas for 'later work', 'On the Nature of Moral Values' and 'Aspects of Scientific Explanation'

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 6. Deconstruction

6840	Derrida came to believe in the undeconstructability of justice, which cannot be relativised [Derrida, by Critchley]

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

21750

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

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 4. Prediction

22179

Explanatory facts also predict, and predictive facts also explain [Hempel, by Okasha]

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

21748

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

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / e. Lawlike explanations

6755	For Hempel, explanations are deductive-nomological or probabilistic-statistical [Hempel, by Bird]

17083

The covering-law model is for scientific explanation; historical explanation is quite different [Hempel]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / g. Causal explanations

13052

Hempel rejects causation as part of explanation [Hempel, by Salmon]

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

21749

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

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

21751

Love seems to diminish with distance from oneself [Quine]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / c. A unified people

21936

A community must consist of singular persons, with nothing in common [Derrida, by Glendinning]

21937

Can there be democratic friendship without us all becoming identical? [Derrida, by Glendinning]