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All the ideas for 'Reflections on my Critics', 'Tonk, Plonk and Plink' and 'works'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 5. Later European Thought

7822	A neo-Stoic movement began in the late sixteenth century [Lipsius, by Grayling]

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

12129

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

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]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / a. Types of explanation

17897

Analytic explanation is wholes in terms of parts; synthetic is parts in terms of wholes or contexts [Belnap]