Lexicon of Arguments

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I 158
NominalismVsmodality - EmpiricismVsModality.
Solution today: instead of probability. - Hermann Weyl.
>Probability.
I 198
Modality/science/Fraassen: in science modality appears only insofar as its language is modal. - We must also consider the structure of language here together with the models and actual phenomena. >Phenomena, >Observation language.
Possible Worlds/Fraassen: but we must not regard them as real. >Possible worlds.
I 200
Modal/actual/Wittgenstein/Fraassen:
a) actual: nothing that is green is red
b) modal: there is no possible object that is both green and red - this goes beyond the first by saying something about what could not be.
a) says that there is no point in the color spectrum that is green and red
b) that absolutely no point of the spectrum is so.
>Obervation, >Method, >Experiment.

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