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Ideas of Stephen Boulter, by Text
[British, fl. 2012, At Oxford Brookes University.]
2019
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Why Medieval Philosophy Matters
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p.33
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Thoughts are general, but the world isn't, so how can we think accurately?
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p.38
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22135
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Our concepts can never fully capture reality, but simplification does not falsify
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p.51
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Science begins with sufficient reason, de-animation, and the importance of nature
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p.55
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Science rests on scholastic metaphysics, not on Hume, Kant or Carnap
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p.58
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Experiments don't just observe; they look to see what interventions change the natural order
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p.104
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Logical possibility needs the concepts of the proposition to be adequate
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p.122
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Aristotelians accept the analytic-synthetic distinction
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p.144
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The facts about human health are the measure of the values in our lives
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