Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'reports', 'The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory' and 'works'

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5 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 2. Excluded Middle

15941

For intuitionists excluded middle is an outdated historical convention [Brouwer]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / h. Reals from Cauchy

18247

Brouwer saw reals as potential, not actual, and produced by a rule, or a choice [Brouwer, by Shapiro]

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

22137

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

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

18197

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

25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 3. Punishment / c. Deterrence of crime

1743	The greatest deterrence for injustice is if uninjured parties feel as much indignation as those who are injured [Solon, by Diog. Laertius]