Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Subjectivist's Guide to Objective Chance', 'Commentary on Euclid's 'Elements'' and 'works'

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4 ideas

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 1. External Justification

3568	Surely ALL truths are externally justified, by the facts? [Cross,A]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / g. Causal explanations

13165

Geometrical proofs do not show causes, as when we prove a triangle contains two right angles [Proclus]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 1. Abstract Thought

9569	The origin of geometry started in sensation, then moved to calculation, and then to reason [Proclus]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / b. Best system theory

9425	Lewis later proposed the axioms at the intersection of the best theories (which may be few) [Mumford on Lewis]