Lexicon of Arguments

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Carnap: the movement of anything and everybody can be predicted based on the movement of elementary particles.
Rorty: that way we should be on top of all that living things, but we would not have explained it!
>Other authors on explaining.
Elementary particles are well applicable in any section of the universe, but the talk of politicians or emerald flowers only in particular contexts.
>Context, >Natural laws, >Generalization.
I 230
Knowledge/Rorty: there is no reason to object to statements about the acquisition of knowledge that refer to internal representations. But explanation and justification must be distinguished: one can put forward such explanations without reviving the traditional mind-body problem.
Justification: E.g. through sensual data.
Explanation: causal.
I 234
Explanation: How can you say when a complete causal explanation of X must contain statements about X.
>Justification, >Causal explanation.
VI 212
Understanding/Explanation/RortyVsMcDowell: we should not talk about comprehensibility! Comprehensibility is very cheap to have: if we train two people to speak the same way!.
>Understanding.
Horwich I 452
Explanation/Rorty: something that changes, while everything else remains the same cannot be an explanation.
>Covariance, >Absoluteness.

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