Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Human Freedom and Divine choice', 'Events' and 'Philosophy and Scientific Image of Man'

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4 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / c. Philosophy as generalisation

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Philosophy aims to understand how things (broadly understood) hang together (broadly understood) [Sellars]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events

9413	An event is a change in or to an object [Lombard, by Mumford]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 2. Reduction

6550	Reduction requires that an object's properties consist of its constituents' properties and relations [Sellars]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / a. Essence as necessary properties

13083

The essence is the necessary properties, and the concept includes what is contingent [Leibniz]