Lexicon of Arguments

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I 185
Nominalism/Hacking: nominalism does not affect the existence, but the classification. It is not only due to our way of thinking that we distinguish between grass and straw. The boundaries are not given by nature, the categories are given by the mind, not by nature.
>Categories, >Categorization, >Nature, >Reality, >World/thinking.
Rorty: we cannot divide nature at the joints. That does not mean to deny the existence of material objects.
Idealism: idealism concerns the existence.
>Idealism, >Ontology.
Nominalism, traditional/Hacking: traditional nominalism believes that categories are a product of the human mind, but not changeable.
KuhnVs: categories are very much changeable.
Idealism: idealism concerns the objects.
>Theory change, >Meaning change, cf. >Incommensurability.

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