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1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 2. Wise People

421	Men who love wisdom must be inquirers into very many things indeed [Heraclitus]

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 3. Wisdom Deflated

7490	Because of Darwin, wisdom as a definite attainable state has faded [Watson]

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 1. History of Ideas

7461	The three key ideas are the soul, Europe, and the experiment [Watson]

7464	The big idea: imitation, the soul, experiments, God, heliocentric universe, evolution? [Watson]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 2. Invocation to Philosophy

1491	Everyone has the potential for self-knowledge and sound thinking [Heraclitus]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy

5863	Reason is eternal, but men are foolish [Heraclitus]

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 1. Aims of Science

3859	We do not wish merely to predict, we also want to explain [Newton-Smith]

3870	The real problem of science is how to choose between possible explanations [Newton-Smith]

3853	For science to be rational, we must explain scientific change rationally [Newton-Smith]

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 2. Positivism

3855	Critics attack positivist division between theory and observation [Newton-Smith]

3854	Positivists hold that theoretical terms change, but observation terms don't [Newton-Smith]