Lexicon of Arguments

Philosophical and Scientific Issues in Dispute
 
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I 36
Empiricism/positivism/Barrow: both empiricism and positivism claim that there are only individual facts, not universals.
EmpirismusVsUniversals; PositivismVsUniversals.
>Universals, >Facts, >Individuals, >Individuation, >Identification, cf. >Individual causation,
>Causality, >Causation.
I 42
Both Vsoperationalism/Vsinstrumentalism: theories can only be discovered, they cannot be invented.
>Operationalism, >Instrumentalism, >Theories.
I 39
VsEmpiricism/Barrow: a theory of elementary particles is more than a mere list of their properties. - It excludes useful terms because they are not observable. - So that it forbids any law of nature!
>Observation, >Observation language, >Observation sentences, >Observability,
>Unobservables, >Theoretical terms, >Theoretical entities, >Theory language, >Concepts.

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