Lexicon of Arguments

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IV 20 f
Kuhn / Rorty:
1. Different scientific vocabularies can not be translated - but they can be learned.
2. i.e. you can not argue in a vocabulary against the other
3. So both have to be considered true.
4. Beliefs are made true by the world
5. The beliefs of Aristotle and Galileo cannot be made true by the same world.
>Truthmakers.
Therefore there must be several possible worlds. >Meaning Change, >Theory Change, >Vocabulary,

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