Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for David Galloway, Michael Faraday and Antony Flew

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5 ideas

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 1. Perceptual Realism / b. Direct realism

8417	Direct realism is false, because defeasibility questions are essential to perceptual knowledge [Galloway]

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

15314

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

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / b. Religious Meaning

1466	Claims about God don't seem to claim or deny anything tangible, so evidence is irrelevant [Flew, by PG]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / d. Religious Falsification

1465	You can't claim a patch of land is tended by a 'gardener' if there is no evidence, and all counter-evidence is rejected [Flew, by PG]

1467	Religious people seem unwilling to accept any evidence that God does not love us, so their claim is unfalsifiable [Flew, by PG]