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All the ideas for 'On Motion', 'Popular Scientific Lectures' and 'When Does a Life Begin?'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 2. Positivism

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Laws of nature are just records of regularities and correlations, with concepts to make recording them easier [Mach, by Harré]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 3. Abortion

4054	I may exist before I become a person, just as I exist before I become an adult [Lockwood]

4055	It isn't obviously wicked to destroy a potential human being (e.g. an ununited egg and sperm) [Lockwood]

4056	If the soul is held to leave the body at brain-death, it should arrive at the time of brain-creation [Lockwood]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 1. Relativity / a. Special relativity

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Motion is not absolute, but consists in relation [Leibniz]