Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Letters to Regius' and 'The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge'

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5 ideas

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism

12251

Substantial forms are not understood, and explain nothing [Descartes]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism

8824	No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

468	Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

15251

The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / c. Angels

16772

An angelic mind would not experience pain, even when connected to a human body [Descartes, by Pasnau]