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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Parthood and Identity across Time' and 'Experimental Researches in Electricity'

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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 5. Temporal Parts

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Temporal parts is a crazy doctrine, because it entails constantly creating stuff ex nihilo [Thomson, by Koslicki]

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]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / b. Fields

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Faraday's single field of variable forces introduces a criterion of Unity into what is ultimate [Faraday, by Harré/Madden]

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

535	The gods are just personified human benefits [Prodicus]

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