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All the ideas for 'New system of communication of substances', 'Continental Philosophy - V. Short Intro' and 'New Foundations for Mathematical Logic'

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10 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism

7068	If infatuation with science leads to bad scientism, its rejection leads to obscurantism [Critchley]

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy

7075	To meet the division in our life, try the Subject, Nature, Spirit, Will, Power, Praxis, Unconscious, or Being [Critchley]

7069	The French keep returning, to Hegel or Nietzsche or Marx [Critchley]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / a. Axioms for sets

9879	NF has no models, but just blocks the comprehension axiom, to avoid contradictions [Quine, by Dummett]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence

13168

My formal unifying atoms are substantial forms, which are forces like appetites [Leibniz]

13169

I call Aristotle's entelechies 'primitive forces', which originate activity [Leibniz]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Simples

13170

The analysis of things leads to atoms of substance, which found both composition and action [Leibniz]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance

13171

Substance must necessarily involve progress and change [Leibniz]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value

7067	Food first, then ethics [Critchley]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / c. Forces

13167

We need the metaphysical notion of force to explain mechanics, and not just extended mass [Leibniz]