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Ideas for 'Concerning the Author', 'Utopia' and 'Mental Content'

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14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory

14766	Duns Scotus offers perhaps the best logic and metaphysics for modern physical science [Peirce]
	Full Idea: The works of Duns Scotus have strongly influenced me. …His logic and metaphysics, torn away from its medievalism, …will go far toward supplying the philosophy which is best to harmonize with physical science.
	From: Charles Sanders Peirce (Concerning the Author [1897], p.2)

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / a. Types of explanation

23805	Some explanations offer to explain a mystery by a greater mystery [Schulte]
	Full Idea: An 'obscurum per obscurius' explanation is explaining something mysterious by something even more mysterious,
	From: Peter Schulte (Mental Content [2023], 6)
	A reaction: Schulte's example is trying to explain mental content in terms of phenomenal experience. That is, roughly, explaining content by qualia, when the latter is the 'hard problem'.