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All the ideas for 'Mind and Its Place in Nature', 'Tractatus de corpore Christi' and 'Intro to 'Philosophical Essays''

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

9786	Philosophers working like teams of scientists is absurd, yet isolation is hard [Cartwright,R]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence

9784	A false proposition isn't truer because it is part of a coherent system [Cartwright,R]

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 6. Ockham's Razor

16676

Why use more things when fewer will do? [William of Ockham]

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

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

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / b. Corpuscles

16675

Every extended material substance is composed of parts distant from one another [William of Ockham]