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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Subjectivist's Guide to Objective Chance' and 'No Moral Difference'

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25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 2. Euthanasia
It has become normal to consider passive euthanasia while condemning active euthanasia [Rachels]
If it is desirable that a given patient die, then moral objections to killing them do not apply [Rachels]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature
Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / b. Best system theory
Lewis later proposed the axioms at the intersection of the best theories (which may be few) [Mumford on Lewis]
27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution
Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]