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All the ideas for 'The Strangest Man', 'Resemblance Nominalism: a solution to universals' and 'De rebus naturalibus'

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6 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived
16740 A power is not a cause, but an aptitude for a cause [Zabarella]
8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 2. Resemblance Nominalism
18436 Entities are truthmakers for their resemblances, so no extra entities or 'resemblances' are needed [Rodriquez-Pereyra]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / b. Prime matter
16571 Prime matter is exceptionally obscure [Zabarella]
27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / d. Gravity
21236 Instead of gravitational force, we now have a pervasive gravitational field [Farmelo]
27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / d. Quantum mechanics
21235 The Schrödinger waves are just the maths of transforming energy values to positions [Farmelo]
27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / c. Particle properties
21234 Experiments show that fundamental particles of one type are identical [Farmelo]