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All the ideas for 'Reflections on my Critics', 'Pacidius Philalethi dialogue' and 'Some Remarks on Essentialism'

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8 ideas

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

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

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

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

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / a. Essence as necessary properties

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Essentialism says some of a thing's properties are necessary, and could not be absent [Cartwright,R]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 14. Knowledge of Essences

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The difficulty in essentialism is deciding the grounds for rating an attribute as essential [Cartwright,R]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism

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Essentialism is said to be unintelligible, because relative, if necessary truths are all analytic [Cartwright,R]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 3. Relative Identity

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An act of ostension doesn't seem to need a 'sort' of thing, even of a very broad kind [Cartwright,R]

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]