Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding' and 'Letters to Fardella'

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6 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic

12708

The soul is not a substance but a substantial form, the first active faculty [Leibniz]

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

19261

Understanding is seeing coherent relationships in the relevant information [Kvanvig]

19. Language / F. Communication / 3. Denial

1554	Contradiction is impossible, since only one side of the argument refers to the true facts [Prodicus, by Didymus the Blind]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / c. Teleological Proof critique

1555	People used to think anything helpful to life was a god, as the Egyptians think the Nile a god [Prodicus]

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

1543	He denied the existence of the gods, saying they are just exaltations of things useful for life [Prodicus]

535	The gods are just personified human benefits [Prodicus]