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All the ideas for 'reports', 'Reflections on my Critics' and 'Summa quaestionum super Sententias'

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7 ideas

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

12129

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

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations

16659

Relations do not add anything to reality, though they are real aspects of the world [Olivi]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 4. Quantity of an Object

16673

Quantity just adds union and location to the extension of parts [Olivi]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity

3016	Even the gods cannot strive against necessity [Pittacus, by Diog. Laertius]

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

12128

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

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 5. Species

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Things are limited by the species to certain modes of being [Olivi]