Lexicon of Arguments

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I (a) 49
Theory/calculus/positivism/Putnam: in a calculus (if you identify a theory with it), the predictions are contained.

Theory Meaning/concept meaning/meaning change/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.
>Theory, >Concept/Putnam.
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V 157
Theory change/meaning change/predictions/Putnam: to be able to judge whether the predictions of another theory are true, I need to be able to translate the languages of both theories into each other.
>Meaning change, >Theory change.
V 245
Logical positivism/empiricism/Putnam: logical positivism always has the tendency to majority thought (of verification).
Central for positivism since Comte: predictions are seen as the goal of science.
>Positivism, >Explanation/Comte.
V 261
Evolution theory/prediction/Putnam: The evolution theory is one of the most successful theories at all. However, it does not imply any predictions.
>Evolution/Putnam, >Evolution.

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