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All the ideas for 'On Motion', 'Farewell to Reality: fairytale physics' and 'works'

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7 ideas

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use
20949 Study the use of words, not their origins [Herder]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value
7669 We cannot attain all the ideals of every culture, so there cannot be a perfect life [Herder, by Berlin]
24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 7. Communitarianism / a. Communitarianism
7668 Herder invented the idea of being rooted in (or cut off from) a home or a group [Herder, by Berlin]
27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 1. Relativity / a. Special relativity
12709 Motion is not absolute, but consists in relation [Leibniz]
27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / b. Fields
21730 A 'field' is a property with a magnitude, distributed across all of space and time [Baggott]
21731 Fields can be 'scalar', or 'vector', or 'tensor', or 'spinor' [Baggott]
27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / b. Standard model
21732 The current standard model requires 61 particles [Baggott]