Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Mind and Its Place in Nature', 'Two letters on mind' and 'Questions on Aristotle's Physics'

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7 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic

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Incorporeal substances are powers or forces [Descartes, by Pasnau]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 4. Quantity of an Object

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Without magnitude a thing would retain its parts, but they would have no location [Buridan]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 8. Continuity of Rivers

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A thing is (less properly) the same over time if each part is succeeded by another [Buridan]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 6. Inference in Perception

7628	Broad rejects the inferential component of the representative theory [Broad, by Maund]

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 2. Demonstration

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Induction is not demonstration, because not all of the instances can be observed [Buridan]

14. Science / C. Induction / 2. Aims of Induction

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Science is based on induction, for general truths about fire, rhubarb and magnets [Buridan]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / c. Matter as extension

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Impenetrability only belongs to the essence of extension [Descartes]