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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'on Goodman's 'Ways of Worldmaking'' and 'Summula philosophiae naturalis'

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6 ideas

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism

18438

Every worldly event, without exception, is a redistribution of microphysical states [Quine]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism

16608

Ockham was an anti-realist about the categories [William of Ockham, by Pasnau]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 4. Quantity of an Object

16599

Ockham says matter must be extended, so we don't need Quantity [William of Ockham, by Pasnau]

16681

Matter gets its quantity from condensation and rarefaction, which is just local motion [William of Ockham]

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

541	Virtue comes more from habit than character [Critias]

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

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