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All the ideas for 'Phenomenalism', 'Giordano Bruno and Hermetic Tradition' and 'The Scope and Language of Science'

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7 ideas

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

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

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

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 6. Mathematics as Set Theory / a. Mathematics is set theory

8463	Maths can be reduced to logic and set theory [Quine]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties

8461	The category of objects incorporates the old distinction of substances and their modes [Quine]

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]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 6. Conceptual Dualism

8462	A hallucination can, like an ague, be identified with its host; the ontology is physical, the idiom mental [Quine]