Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Letters to De Vries' and 'Goodness and Choice'

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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 14. Knowledge of Essences

4869	Experience does not teach us any essences of things [Spinoza]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / b. Successful function

22381

Being a good father seems to depend on intentions, rather than actual abilities [Foot]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 3. Natural Function

22380

Some words, such as 'knife', have a meaning which involves its function [Foot]

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]

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

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