Lexicon of Arguments

 Philosophical and Scientific Issues in Dispute
 
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I VII
Platonism/Bigelow/Pargetter: Thesis: Bigelow/Pargetter pro Platonism, but a scientific Platonism.
I 387
Universals/Realismus/Bigelow/Pargetter: Universal realism allows us to be realists in terms of causation. For this we have to recognize forces as vectors and proportions as causally active.
>Universals, >Universals/Bigelow.
I 388
Existence/Property/Instantiation/Uninstantiated/Plato/Bigelow/Pargetter: pro: a property does not have to be instantiated to exist.
>Instantiation, >Ontology, >Existence.
Possible worlds/realism/Bigelow/Pargetter: statistical concluding can be realistically understood if we allow possible worlds.
>Possible worlds, >Statistics, >Probability, >Conclusions,
>Realism.
Chance: we can also realistically analyze objective chances with them, as well as natural necessity in natural laws and its connection with counterfactual conditionals.
>Chance.
Explanation: can be realistically constructed with possible worlds.
>Explanation, >Causal explanation.

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