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All the ideas for 'Two Problems of Epistemology', 'Structure of Scientific Revolutions (2nd ed)' and 'Occasions of Identity'

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11 ideas

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / b. Cat and its tail

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A CAR and its major PART can become identical, yet seem to have different properties [Gallois]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 1. Objects over Time

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Gallois hoped to clarify identity through time, but seems to make talk of it impossible [Hawley on Gallois]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 3. Relative Identity

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Gallois is committed to identity with respect to times, and denial of simple identity [Gallois, by Sider]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 6. Identity between Objects

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Occasional Identity: two objects can be identical at one time, and different at others [Gallois, by Hawley]

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 6. Falsification

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Most theories are continually falsified [Kuhn, by Kitcher]

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Kuhn's scientists don't aim to falsifying their paradigm, because that is what they rely on [Kuhn, by Gorham]

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Particulars can be verified or falsified, but general statements can only be falsified (conclusively) [Popper]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 4. Paradigm

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Switching scientific paradigms is a conversion experience [Kuhn]

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

6162	Kuhn has a description theory of reference, so the reference of 'electron' changes with the descriptions [Rowlands on Kuhn]

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Incommensurability assumes concepts get their meaning from within the theory [Kuhn, by Okasha]

7619	Galileo's notions can't be 'incommensurable' if we can fully describe them [Putnam on Kuhn]