Lexicon of Arguments

Philosophical and Scientific Issues in Dispute
 
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II 29
Base sentence/theory language/Genz: base sentences can be derived from the theory language, but not vice versa.
II 30
Theory language/Genz: theory language is a product of human imagination that has to prove itself in base sentences.
>Theory language.
Concept/Einstein/Genz: a concept is logically independent of the sensory experience. They do not behave like soup and beef, but like coat check number and coat.
>Concepts, >Experience, >Perception, >Measurement.
Freedom: there is freedom here, but not as strong as for the poet, but as for the person who solves a word puzzle. He/she can suggest any word, but in the end there is only one correct word.
>Freedom, >Determinism.
II 31
Theory language/reality/Genz: to what extent do sentences and terms of the theory language play a role in reality?
>Reality.
Concepts: if terms could be defined by base sentences, and the sentences of the theoretical language could be derived from observations that can be expressed by base sentences, then the status of the theoretical language would be the same as that of the base sentences.
>Definitions.
Solution/Genz: the theory language does not only summarize observations, but also generalizes them (by natural laws).
>Observation, >Generalization.

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