Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Concerning the Author', 'Journals' and 'Quine on Quantifying In'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics

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The demonstrations of the metaphysicians are all moonshine [Peirce]

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism

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I am saturated with the spirit of physical science [Peirce]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 1. Logical Form

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Is it the sentence-token or the sentence-type that has a logical form? [Fine,K]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 4. Substitutional Quantification

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Substitutional quantification is referential quantification over expressions [Fine,K]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 3. Fallibilism

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Infallibility in science is just a joke [Peirce]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 2. Associationism

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Association of ideas is the best philosophical idea of the prescientific age [Peirce]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory

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Duns Scotus offers perhaps the best logic and metaphysics for modern physical science [Peirce]

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

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Cold and hot are the swiftness and slowness of corpuscular motion [Beeckman]