Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Changes in Events and Changes in Things', 'The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding' and 'On the Conservation of Force'

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5 ideas

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / b. Types of fact
15201 That Queen Anne is dead is a 'general fact', not a fact about Queen Anne [Prior,AN]
11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding
19261 Understanding is seeing coherent relationships in the relevant information [Kvanvig]
27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 2. Thermodynamics / a. Energy
20646 Helmholtz used 'energy' to mathematically link heat, light, electricity and magnetism [Helmholtz, by Watson]
27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 2. Thermodynamics / c. Conservation of energy
20973 All forces conserve the sum of kinetic and potential energy [Helmholtz, by Papineau]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / e. Tensed (A) series
22899 'Thank goodness that's over' is not like 'thank goodness that happened on Friday' [Prior,AN]