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All the ideas for 'Scientific Explanation', 'Sentences' and 'Against Method'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 1. Aims of Science

6601	Science rules the globe because of colonising power, not inherent rationality [Feyerabend]

2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 4. Circularity

9355	One sort of circularity presupposes a premise, the other presupposes a rule being used [Braithwaite, by Devitt]

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

18528

The single imagined 'interval' between things only exists in the intellect [Auriol]

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

2561	For Feyerabend the meaning of a term depends on a whole theory [Feyerabend, by Rorty]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / b. Prime matter

16589

Prime matter lacks essence, but is only potentially and indeterminately a physical thing [Auriol]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 4. Divine Contradictions

16651

God can do anything non-contradictory, as making straightness with no line, or lightness with no parts [Auriol]