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Ideas for 'Function and Concept', 'Rationality and Goodness' and 'Physics and Philosophy'

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

18899	Frege takes the existence of horses to be part of their concept [Frege, by Sommers]
	Full Idea: Frege regarded the existence of horses as a property of the concept 'horse'.
	From: report of Gottlob Frege (Function and Concept [1891]) by Fred Sommers - Intellectual Autobiography 'Realism'

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism

17545	Quantum theory shows that exact science does not need dogmatic realism [Heisenberg]
	Full Idea: It is only through quantum theory that we have learned that exact science is possible without the basis of dogmatic realism.
	From: Werner Heisenberg (Physics and Philosophy [1958], 05)

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism

17538	Quantum theory does not introduce minds into atomic events [Heisenberg]
	Full Idea: Certainly quantum theory does not contain genuine subjective features, it does not introduce the mind of the physicist as a part of the atomic event.
	From: Werner Heisenberg (Physics and Philosophy [1958], 03)
	A reaction: This should be digested by anyone who wants to erect some dodgy anti-realist, idealist, subjective metaphysics on the basis of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.