Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Popular Scientific Lectures' and 'Letters to Coste'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 2. Positivism

15873

Laws of nature are just records of regularities and correlations, with concepts to make recording them easier [Mach, by Harré]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason

19433

The universe is infinitely varied, so the Buridan's Ass dilemma could never happen [Leibniz]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 8. Continuity of Rivers

579	Cratylus said you couldn't even step into the same river once [Cratylus, by Aristotle]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / a. Possible worlds

19434

There may be a world where dogs smell their game at a thousand leagues [Leibniz]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism

578	Cratylus decided speech was hopeless, and his only expression was the movement of a finger [Cratylus, by Aristotle]