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All the ideas for 'Phenomenalism', 'Giordano Bruno and Hermetic Tradition' and 'fragments/reports'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 4. Early European Thought

9291	The dating, in 1614, of the Hermetic writings as post-Christian is the end of the Renaissance [Yates]

9288	The magic of Asclepius enters Renaissance thought mixed into Ficino's neo-platonism [Yates]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism

2614	Modern phenomenalism holds that objects are logical constructions out of sense-data [Ayer]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / a. Sense-data theory

2615	The concept of sense-data allows us to discuss appearances without worrying about reality [Ayer]

19. Language / F. Communication / 3. Denial

1554	Contradiction is impossible, since only one side of the argument refers to the true facts [Prodicus, by Didymus the Blind]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / c. Teleological Proof critique

1555	People used to think anything helpful to life was a god, as the Egyptians think the Nile a god [Prodicus]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

1543	He denied the existence of the gods, saying they are just exaltations of things useful for life [Prodicus]

535	The gods are just personified human benefits [Prodicus]