Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Roots of Reference', 'Dispositional Essentialism and the Laws of Nature' and 'Whose Justice? Which Rationality?'

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4 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived

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Dispositions are physical states of mechanism; when known, these replace the old disposition term [Quine]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 4. Cultural relativism

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Relativism can be seen as about the rationality of different cultural traditions [MacIntyre, by Kusch]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / g. Liberalism critique

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Liberals debate how conservative or radical to be, but don't question their basics [MacIntyre]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws

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Laws are relations of kinds, quantities and qualities, supervening on the essences of a domain [Vetter]