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All the ideas for 'Reflections on my Critics', 'Toward a Philosophy of History' and 'works'

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6 ideas

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

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

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / h. Dasein (being human)

20752

For man, being is not what he is, but what he is going to be [Ortega y Gassett]

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]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

7667	There are two sides to men - the pleasantly social, and the violent and creative [Diderot, by Berlin]

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Instead of having a nature, man only has a history [Ortega y Gassett]