Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'works', 'Relations' and 'Concerning the Author'

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9 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]

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations

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It may be that internal relations like proportion exist, because we directly perceive it [MacBride]

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 2. Internal Relations

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Internal relations are fixed by existences, or characters, or supervenience on characters [MacBride]

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 4. Formal Relations / a. Types of relation

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'Multigrade' relations are those lacking a fixed number of relata [MacBride]

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]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

7667	There are two sides to men - the pleasantly social, and the violent and creative [Diderot, by Berlin]