Philosophical methodology requires that tools used to vindicate a framework must themselves be defensible, a constraint Quine and Goodman both emphasized regarding reflective equilibrium.
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constraint(canonical formulations of general relativity and electromagnetism)
A condition encoding the fact that canonical variables cannot be specified independently of one another.
framework(Carnap's philosophy of language and logic)
A structured system of rules or language that must be in place for rational discourse to be possible.
reflective equilibrium(Introduced by Goodman in the context of justifying induction)
A methodological state reached when considered judgments and the inference rules that best explain those judgments are mutually coherent, achieved by iteratively revising either judgments or rules when conflicts arise