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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge' and 'Summa Contra Gentiles'

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7 ideas

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

22115

Wise people should contemplate and discuss the truth, and fight against falsehood [Aquinas]

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

8824	No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim]

17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 4. Occasionalism

20700

Without God's influence every operation would stop, so God causes everything [Aquinas]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

15251

The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / f. Eternalism

15202

Eternity coexists with passing time, as the centre of a circle coexists with its circumference [Aquinas]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

5989	Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]