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All the ideas for 'A Problem about Substitutional Quantification?st1=Saul A. Kripke', 'The Scientific Image' and 'Between Facts and Norms'

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5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 4. Substitutional Quantification

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The substitutional quantifier is not in competition with the standard interpretation [Kripke, by Marcus (Barcan)]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity

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Empiricists deny what is unobservable, and reject objective modality [Fraassen]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / c. Aim of beliefs

6783	To 'accept' a theory is not to believe it, but to believe it empirically adequate [Fraassen, by Bird]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 2. Aim of Science

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To accept a scientific theory, we only need to believe that it is empirically adequate [Fraassen]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 3. Best Explanation / c. Against best explanation

6784	Why should the true explanation be one of the few we have actually thought of? [Fraassen, by Bird]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 4. Explanation Doubts / a. Explanation as pragmatic

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An explanation is just descriptive information answering a particular question [Fraassen, by Salmon]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

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Actions norms are only valid if everyone possibly affected is involved in the discourse [Habermas]