Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Strangest Man' and 'The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences'

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6 ideas

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / d. Consilience

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Consilience is a common groundwork of explanation [Whewell]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character

541	Virtue comes more from habit than character [Critias]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / d. Gravity

21236

Instead of gravitational force, we now have a pervasive gravitational field [Farmelo]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / d. Quantum mechanics

21235

The Schrödinger waves are just the maths of transforming energy values to positions [Farmelo]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / c. Particle properties

21234

Experiments show that fundamental particles of one type are identical [Farmelo]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

542	Fear of the gods was invented to discourage secret sin [Critias]