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Putnam defined meaning on 4 notions : syntactic (grammar), semantic (category), stereotype, reference and extension

The reference-extension inclusion allows two competing, successive theories differ by stereotype, but maintain the same reference, allowing comparison, circumventing Kuhn's meaning-incommensurability

Doesn't apply to branching of meaning, meaning of non-real entities

Incommensurability
Meaning no common measure. highest common divisor concept in Greek

Three forms of incommensurability
Topic, dissociation and meaning commensurability

Meaning incommensurability is the one most people focus as it received the most resistance and it's the most novel.

Daudeley shapere - enough commonality exists to make comparisons possible. Such are done without invoking meaning.

pragmatism:

replacement of truth by method

2 branches.

peirce: truth as table conclusions reached by a community
putnam: both different reasons and conclusions accumulate and converge

james, dewey, rorty: whatever answers to present needs
no stable conclusions. no notion more/less reasonable
instrumentalism

positivism denies causality while pragmatism accepts it as long as it's useful

original positivism p and logical positivism lp of the Vienna circle
p's six ingredients
Comte coined term p. Had links to french revolution Condorcet

Smart's materialism and Nancy Cartwright's causalism
Both care about the entity realism.

Interesting: regards flux lines I am more of a materialist than causalist.

Materialist's is for building while it is for causing for causalists

Millikan exp for e charge. similar exp to detect the charge of quarks
Realism as a movement and not a doctrine: different forms of realism: literary, artistic and then scientific
realism about entities (real) and theory (truth) are independent from one another
3 ingredients of sc. realism: ontological, causal, epistemological by newton smith
realism != materialism, forces don't come into the latter

separation of reason and reality

Carnap-Popper view in postivism. Former based things on induction and verification while the latter based things on deduction and falsifiability.

Both insufficient as read in Adam Becker's book. Confirmation and falsification makes sense only with an assumed context.

a good summary of Kuhn's work. More or less the forward he wrote for Structure.

Book will focus on reality.