Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'De Mundo Praesenti' and 'The Case for Closure'

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7 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence

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The substantial form is the principle of action or the primitive force of acting [Leibniz]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects

12743

A true being must (unlike a chain) have united parts, with a substantial form as its subject [Leibniz]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 2. Common Sense Certainty

19553

Commitment to 'I have a hand' only makes sense in a context where it has been doubted [Hawthorne]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 2. Justification Challenges / c. Knowledge closure

19551

How can we know the heavyweight implications of normal knowledge? Must we distort 'knowledge'? [Hawthorne]

19552

We wouldn't know the logical implications of our knowledge if small risks added up to big risks [Hawthorne]

19554

Denying closure is denying we know P when we know P and Q, which is absurd in simple cases [Hawthorne]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 1. God

6011	There is a remote first god (the Good), and a second god who organises the material world [Numenius, by O'Meara]