Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'works' and 'Human Knowledge: its scope and limits'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism

7081	Philosophy is not separate from or above empirical science [Neurath]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / c. not

16489

Is it possible to state every possible truth about the whole course of nature without using 'not'? [Russell]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 6. Logical Necessity

16490

Some facts about experience feel like logical necessities [Russell]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 5. Empiricism Critique

16488

It is hard to explain how a sentence like 'it is not raining' can be found true by observation [Russell]

19. Language / F. Communication / 3. Denial

16491

If we define 'this is not blue' as disbelief in 'this is blue', we eliminate 'not' as an ingredient of facts [Russell]

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 / a. Explaining movement

4786	Russell's 'at-at' theory says motion is to be at the intervening points at the intervening instants [Russell, by Psillos]

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

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