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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Process and Reality' and 'On Multiplying Entities'

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10 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / c. Classical philosophy

7719	European philosophy consists of a series of footnotes to Plato [Whitehead]

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 6. Ockham's Razor

8208	In arithmetic, ratios, negatives, irrationals and imaginaries were created in order to generalise [Quine]

8207	The quest for simplicity drove scientists to posit new entities, such as molecules in gases [Quine]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 2. Domain of Quantification

10656

With 'extensive connection', boundary elements are not included in domains [Whitehead, by Varzi]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes

15389

In Whitehead 'processes' consist of events beginning and ending [Whitehead, by Simons]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events

8205	Explaining events just by bodies can't explain two events identical in space-time [Quine]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity

8206	Necessity could be just generalisation over classes, or (maybe) quantifying over possibilia [Quine]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

468	Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation

15247

Whitehead held that perception was a necessary feature of all causation [Whitehead, by Harré/Madden]

27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 3. Points in Space

16962

Whitehead replaced points with extended regions [Whitehead, by Quine]