Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Two Problems of Epistemology', 'On the Very Idea of a Third Dogma' and 'On the Nature of Truth and Falsehood'

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4 ideas

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

6343	For Russell, both propositions and facts are arrangements of objects, so obviously they correspond [Horwich on Russell]

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

18284

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

19. Language / D. Propositions / 6. Propositions Critique

7534	In 1906, Russell decided that propositions did not, after all, exist [Russell, by Monk]

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

19045

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