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All the ideas for 'The Strangest Man', 'works' and 'Popular Scientific Lectures'

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6 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]

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 2. Excluded Middle

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For intuitionists excluded middle is an outdated historical convention [Brouwer]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / h. Reals from Cauchy

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Brouwer saw reals as potential, not actual, and produced by a rule, or a choice [Brouwer, by Shapiro]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / d. Gravity

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Instead of gravitational force, we now have a pervasive gravitational field [Farmelo]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / d. Quantum mechanics

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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

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Experiments show that fundamental particles of one type are identical [Farmelo]