Lexicon of Arguments

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I (c) 50
Ambiguities in connection with reversed spectra are ordinary ambiguities that exist in everyday life when it comes to relativity without clear criterion. E.g. What are "relevant investigations" when it is not clear whether they are relevant to the politics of the day, the emotional well-being or for understanding or whatever.
>Inverted spectra, >Ambiguity.
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Rorty VI 208
Objects/Reality/World/Lewis/Rorty: all objects in the universe except the elementary particles are manipulated artifacts.
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Rorty VI 208
LewisVsSellars: even he was too much inclined to label nature as "atoms plus empty space" like Democritus and to invent pseudo-problems about the possibility to reconcile the "scientific" to the "manifest" idea of man. (reductionist view of the non-human nature).
>Reductionism, >Nature, >Sellars, cf. >Relationism, >Substantivalism.

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