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All the ideas for 'Content Preservation', 'The Value of Science' and 'Reflections on my Critics'

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5 ideas

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

12129

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

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 1. External Justification

9382	Subjects may be unaware of their epistemic 'entitlements', unlike their 'justifications' [Burge]

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]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature

15877

The aim of science is just to create a comprehensive, elegant language to describe brute facts [Poincaré, by Harré]