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All the ideas for 'works', 'Against Barbaric physics' and 'Understanding'

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

19691

Unlike knowledge, you can achieve understanding through luck [Grimm]

19690

'Grasping' a structure seems to be modal, because we must anticipate its behaviour [Grimm]

19692

You may have 'weak' understanding, if by luck you can answer a set of 'why questions' [Grimm]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

4366	We can't accept Aristotle's naturalism about persons, because it is normative and unscientific [Williams,B, by Hursthouse]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / c. Forces

16709

Some people return to scholastic mysterious qualities, disguising them as 'forces' [Leibniz]