Lexicon of Arguments

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I 38
Microstructure / macrostructure / MiSt / Putnam: the MiSt does not explain why a rectangular blade plug does not fit into round holes. Rorty: but that is no decisive ontological gap.
>Microstructure/Armstrong, >Causal explanation, >Disposition.
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IV 51
Def Physicalism/Rorty: each event can also be described in a terminology that refers exclusively to elementary particles.
>Physicalism.
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VI 129
Causality/Davidson/Rorty: implicitly one finds in Davidson's writings: there is a causal effect only on the level of microstructure, thus only where strict laws apply and no "ceteris paribus molecules or space time places clauses" occur. (RortyVs.)
>ceteris paribus.
VI 209
Science/Rorty: I think a distinction is important that doesn't occur in McDowell:
1. particle physics together with the part of natural science concerning the microstructure
2. all the rest of science.
Rorty: Particle physics has too much fascination: Indeterminacy: You don't have to explain everything according to Heisenberg.
>Uncertainty relation.

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