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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Understanding' and 'Summula philosophiae naturalis'

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7 ideas

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]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

19691

Unlike knowledge, you can achieve understanding through luck [Grimm]

19690

'Grasping' a structure seems to be modal, because we must anticipate its behaviour [Grimm]

19692

You may have 'weak' understanding, if by luck you can answer a set of 'why questions' [Grimm]

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]