Lexicon of Arguments

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I 295
First dogma/Quine/Rorty: "essentialism": the idea that one might, by determining the nature of the issue in question, between the thing that was talked about earlier, and distinguish what is said about it - which is not possible - Second dogma: that a neutral observation language for verification / falsification was possible. (It is not). Cf. >Two Dogmas.
I 218
Essentialism/PutnamVsQuine: why shouldn't we just say: translation according to the manuals that have this feature?
>Analytical hypothesis.
Rorty: This is a variant of essentialism: according to which we know from the outset that something that does not fit into the vocabulary of the physics of the day is so insignificant that it merely exists "in the eyes of the person concerned". (Subjective Convenience).
>Absoluteness.

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