A plea for plurealism

Erkenntnis

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 161-173

  Scheffler, Israel ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 52849121293     PISSN: 01650106     EISSN: 15728420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005513808997     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Charles S. Peirce, 'The Fixation of Belief', CP (Collected Papers) 5, 384.
2. 'How to Make our Ideas Clear', CP 5, 407.
3. How to Make our Ideas Clear', CP 5, 407. Ibid.
4. CP 5, 384.
5. CP 8, 12.
6. W. V. Quine: 1960, Word and Object, John Wiley, New York, p. 23.
7. Thomas S. Kuhn: 1962, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London. See also 2nd edn., 1970.
8. Thomas S. Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 1962, Ibid., 168 (2nd ed. 169).
9. Nelson Goodman: 1978, Ways of Worldmaking, Hackett, Indianapolis.
10. Nelson Goodman: Ways of Worldmaking, Ibid., 1978, p. 94.
11. Nelson Goodman: Ways of Worldmaking, 1978, Ibid., p. 4.
12. For my papers and Goodman's replies, see the collection by Peter J. McCormick: 1996, Starmaking, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA;
13. my Symbolic Worlds Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, (1997, p .209, n. 27);
14. and my 'Some Responses to Goodman's Comments in Starmaking', Philosophia Scientiae 2, Cahier 2, 1997, pp. 207-11. His suggestion that I must be an absolutist was made more than once in personal conversations.
15. Ways of Worldmaking, pp. 2-3.
16. Ways of Worldmaking, Ibid., pp. 4-5.
17. Ways of Worldmaking, Ibid., p. 4.
18. Ways of Worldmaking, p. 4. Ibid.
19. Ways of Worldmaking, Ibid., pp. 3-4.
20. Ways of Worldmaking, Ibid., pp. 2-3.
21. Ways of Worldmaking, Ibid., p. 3
22. Ways of Worldmaking, Ibid., p. 4.
23. Ways of Worldmaking, p. 4. Ibid.
24. Ways of Worldmaking, Ibid., p. 5.
25. Ways of Worldmaking, Ibid., p. 6.
26. Nelson Goodman: 1984, Of Mind and Other Matters, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, p. 42.
27. Ways of Worldmaking, p. 6.
28. Ways of Worldmaking, p. 6. Ibid.
29. See W. V. Quine: 1975, 'On Empirically Equivalent Systems of the World', Erkenntnis 9,313-28, esp. p. 327;
30. and Quine: 1990, Pursuit of Truth, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 98-101.
31. Pursuit of Truth, p. 91.
32. Pursuit of Truth, Ibid., p. 99.
33. Nelson Goodman: 1997, The Structure of Appearance, 3rd ed. Dordrecht: Reidel, Chapter I;
34. Ways of Worldmaking, 114-15;
35. Scheffler, 'Reply to Goodman' in Peter J. McCormick ed. Starmaking, Op. cit., p.161.
36. The Structure of Appearance, Op. cit., pp. 21-22.
37. Ways of Worldmaking, pp. 110-11.
38. Ways of Worldmaking, Ibid., p. 114.