Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Jonathan Barnes, Michael Faraday and Walter Charleton

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5 ideas

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 4. Quantity of an Object

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The quantity is just the matter, in that it has extended parts and is diffuse [Charleton]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 8. Abstractionism Critique

9073	Abstraction from an ambiguous concept like 'mole' will define them as the same [Barnes,J]

9074	Abstraction cannot produce the concept of a 'game', as there is no one common feature [Barnes,J]

9072	Defining concepts by abstractions will collect together far too many attributes from entities [Barnes,J]

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]