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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'The Nature of Mathematical Knowledge' and 'Mind, Brain and the Quantum'

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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 3. Analysis of Preconditions

2963	There may only be necessary and sufficient conditions (and counterfactuals) because we intervene in the world [Lockwood]
	Full Idea: Perhaps notions of necessary and sufficient conditions, and counterfactual considerations, are in some way grounded in awareness of ourselves as active interveners and experimenters in the world, not passive spectators.
	From: Michael Lockwood (Mind, Brain and the Quantum [1989], p.155)

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 7. Limitations of Analysis

2958	No one has ever succeeded in producing an acceptable non-trivial analysis of anything [Lockwood]
	Full Idea: I cannot think of a single philosophically interesting concept that has been successfully and nontrivially analysed to most people's satisfaction.
	From: Michael Lockwood (Mind, Brain and the Quantum [1989], p.121)