Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The New Organon' and 'works'

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5 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / a. Nominalism

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Only individual bodies exist [Bacon]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / c. Form as causal

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There are only individual bodies containing law-based powers, and the Forms are these laws [Bacon]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / d. Non-truthfunction conditionals

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Conditionals are true if minimal revision of the antecedent verifies the consequent [Stalnaker, by Read]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 2. Aim of Science

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Science must clear away the idols of the mind if they are ever going to find the truth [Bacon]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / d. Weakness of will

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Some reasonings are stronger than we are [Philolaus]