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Ep. 294: Quine on Science vs. Epistemology (Part One)

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The Contectural Definition of Set Theory

Science is never just going to be deduction, it's generalization. We're kind of screwed on the doctrinal side. And then we get, historically, these conceptual advancements. O, one of them are contextual definitions from bentham. I think where we that allows us to make our translations more advanced. So translate talk of bodies into whole sentences about impressions without equating the bodies themselves to anything at all. The other innovation beyond the contextural definition, is the idea that you could use set theory to kind of enhance logic in support of arithmetic. You can use tat for your physicalist stuff too. E geess do we need to go through russell and definite descriptions?

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