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All the ideas for 'Confessions of a Philosopher', 'On Copernicanism and Relativity of Motion' and 'Farewell to Reality: fairytale physics'

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6 ideas

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 8. Subjective Truth

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Choose the true hypothesis, which is the most intelligible one [Leibniz]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 3. Best Explanation / a. Best explanation

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The Copernican theory is right because it is the only one offering a good explanation [Leibniz]

16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 3. Limits of Introspection

3102	Why don't we experience or remember going to sleep at night? [Magee]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / b. Fields

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A 'field' is a property with a magnitude, distributed across all of space and time [Baggott]

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Fields can be 'scalar', or 'vector', or 'tensor', or 'spinor' [Baggott]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / b. Standard model

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The current standard model requires 61 particles [Baggott]