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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Dispositions and Powers' and 'The Universe as We Find It'

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27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / c. Electrons

18520

Electrons are treated as particles, but they lose their individuality in relations [Heil]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / h. Presentism

20819

The past and the future subsist, but only the present exists [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 3. Parts of Time / e. Present moment

20818

The present does not exist, so our immediate experience is actually part past and part future [Chrysippus, by Plutarch]

20821

Time is continous and infinitely divisible, so there cannot be a wholly present time [Chrysippus, by Stobaeus]

27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 9. Fine-Tuned Universe

18501

Maybe the universe is fine-tuned because it had to be, despite plans by God or Nature? [Heil]