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All the ideas for 'Moral Dilemmas Revisited', 'Reply to Professor Marcus' and 'The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory'

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5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 4. Substitutional Quantification

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Either reference really matters, or we don't need to replace it with substitutions [Quine]

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

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Observation can force rejection of some part of the initial set of claims [Duhem, by Boulter]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 6. Theory Holism

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Experiments only test groups of hypotheses, and can't show which one is wrong [Duhem]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 5. Action Dilemmas / a. Dilemmas

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There is no restitution after a dilemma, if it only involved the agent, or just needed an explanation [Foot, by PG]

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I can't understand how someone can be necessarily wrong whatever he does [Foot]