What Theories Are Not
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"What Theories Are Not" is a philosophical essay by Hilary Putnam that critically examines and challenges traditional conceptions of scientific theories and their relation to reality.
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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13946321 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: What Theories Are Not Context triple: [Mind, Language and Reality, hasPart, What Theories Are Not]
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Proofs and Theories
Proofs and Theories is a collection of essays by poet Louise Glück that explores the art, craft, and philosophy of poetry and poetic form.
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Resistance to Theory
Resistance to Theory is a seminal collection of essays by literary theorist Paul de Man that challenges the foundations and possibilities of literary theory and criticism.
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C.
The Relativity of Wrong
The Relativity of Wrong is an essay by Isaac Asimov that explains how scientific ideas become progressively less wrong over time, arguing that errors in science are matters of degree rather than absolute falsehood.
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D.
Against the Physicists
Against the Physicists is an ancient philosophical work by Sextus Empiricus that presents a skeptical critique of dogmatic claims in natural philosophy and metaphysics.
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E.
On Non-Existence
On Non-Existence is a lost sophistic treatise, attributed to the ancient Greek philosopher Gorgias, that famously argues in paradoxical fashion that nothing exists, that if anything did exist it would be unknowable, and that if it were knowable it could not be communicated.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: What Theories Are Not Target entity description: "What Theories Are Not" is a philosophical essay by Hilary Putnam that critically examines and challenges traditional conceptions of scientific theories and their relation to reality.
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A.
Proofs and Theories
Proofs and Theories is a collection of essays by poet Louise Glück that explores the art, craft, and philosophy of poetry and poetic form.
-
B.
Resistance to Theory
Resistance to Theory is a seminal collection of essays by literary theorist Paul de Man that challenges the foundations and possibilities of literary theory and criticism.
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C.
The Relativity of Wrong
The Relativity of Wrong is an essay by Isaac Asimov that explains how scientific ideas become progressively less wrong over time, arguing that errors in science are matters of degree rather than absolute falsehood.
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D.
Against the Physicists
Against the Physicists is an ancient philosophical work by Sextus Empiricus that presents a skeptical critique of dogmatic claims in natural philosophy and metaphysics.
-
E.
On Non-Existence
On Non-Existence is a lost sophistic treatise, attributed to the ancient Greek philosopher Gorgias, that famously argues in paradoxical fashion that nothing exists, that if anything did exist it would be unknowable, and that if it were knowable it could not be communicated.
- F. None of above. chosen
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