Lexicon of Arguments

Philosophical and Scientific Issues in Dispute
 
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I (a) 49
Theory/calculus/positivism/Putnam: the predictions are contained in a calculus (if you identify a theory with it).
Theory Meaning/concept meaning/change of meaning/Putnam: if it were true that the theory determines the meaning of the concepts, and the theory has additional hypotheses like "there is no tenth planet", then the term "gravity" would change its meaning if a 10th planet were discovered.
I 50
In fact, the theory dependence demanded by the positivists is not only one of laws, but also of additional assumptions, because if these do not belong to theory, the scheme of theory and prediction collapses.
>Prediction, >Theory, >Additional hypotheses, >Meaning change.

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