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Deflationism/VsDeflationism: is it possible that most of our present scientific concepts have less power in a deflationist perspective?
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Deflationism , >
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Theory language .
Field: perhaps this is so: deflationism shows that there is no best translation of Newtonian terms into modern language.
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Theory change , >
Meaning change .
New Vocabulary/Field: can often be captured with old vocabulary plus higher-order quantification. This is e.g. a Ramsey sentence.
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Levels (Order) .
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Applying/Explaining/Observing/Field: our observation practice explains how our physical vocabulary applies to all that and only that to which it applies to. - This explains why some non-standard models are unintended.
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Model theory .
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Undefined/Language/McGee/Field: = Having non-standard models.
Solution: Extension by predicate: e.g. "standard natural number".
FieldVs: that is cheating.
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Expansion/Field .
New axioms with new vocabulary are not better than new axioms in the old vocabulary.
Cheating: If it was to be assumed that the new predicates have certain extensions. - (Yet FieldVsIndeterminism)
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Pure Mathematics/Application/Field: E.g. Number theory: is not applicable to the world. - For example, set theory: must allow primordial elements for the application.
Solution: "impure mathematics": Functions that map physical objects to numbers - Then the comprehension axioms must also contain non-mathematical vocabulary. E.g. instances of the separation axiom.
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Comprehension .