Lexicon of Arguments

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II 118
Understanding/principle/principles/Genz: a deeper understanding is achieved if one can show that a theory can be derived from principles.
>Principles, >Theories, >Derivation,
>Derivability.
Relativity theory/Einstein/Genz: Einstein has done this for the three theories of relativity.
>Relativity theory.
II 185
Understanding/Genz: we only understand artifacts.
II 186
Quantum mechanics: we understand the behavior of molecules only by taking quantum mechanics into account, so we do not understand it.
II 207
Law/understanding/compression/natural laws/Genz: a law allows understanding, unlike merely observed periodicity.
>Laws, >Natural laws, >Regularities.
II 208
A law compresses the observation data.
Prediction: any theory compressing the data allows predictions.
>Predictions.

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