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All the ideas for 'Reflections on my Critics', 'Pacidius Philalethi dialogue' and 'Natural Science (lost)'

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5 ideas

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

12129

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

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

527	Everything exists which anyone perceives [Metrodorus of Chios]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / a. Parts of objects

12697

Indivisibles are not parts, but the extrema of parts [Leibniz]

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

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