Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Lagoon: how Aristotle invented science', 'Letters to William Molyneux' and 'The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding'

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3 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / b. Pre-Socratic philosophy

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The Pre-Socratics are not simple naturalists, because they do not always 'leave the gods out' [Leroi]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 13. Nominal Essence

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Things have real essences, but we categorise them according to the ideas we receive [Locke]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

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Understanding is seeing coherent relationships in the relevant information [Kvanvig]