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All the ideas for 'Mechanism, purpose and explan. exclusion', 'Reflections on my Critics' and 'De aequopollentia causae et effectus'

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3. Truth / H. Deflationary Truth / 2. Deflationary Truth

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'Truth' may only apply within a theory [Kuhn]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 1. Powers

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Everything has a fixed power, as required by God, and by the possibility of reasoning [Leibniz]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory

6809	Kuhn came to accept that all scientists agree on a particular set of values [Kuhn, by Bird]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 5. Commensurability

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In theory change, words shift their natural reference, so the theories are incommensurable [Kuhn]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 1. Explanation / a. Explanation

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Explanatory exclusion: there cannot be two separate complete explanations of a single event [Kim]