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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Ignorance: a Case for Scepticism' and 'The New Organon'

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8 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / a. Nominalism

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Only individual bodies exist [Bacon]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / c. Form as causal

16033

There are only individual bodies containing law-based powers, and the Forms are these laws [Bacon]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / b. Invariantism

8724	The meaning of 'know' does not change from courtroom to living room [Unger]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism

8722	No one knows anything, and no one is ever justified or reasonable [Unger]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 4. Demon Scepticism

8723	An evil scientist may give you a momentary life, with totally false memories [Unger]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 2. Aim of Science

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Science must clear away the idols of the mind if they are ever going to find the truth [Bacon]

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]