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All the ideas for 'What is so bad about Contradictions?', 'Scientific Thought' and 'The Discourses'

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8 ideas

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 3. Non-Contradiction

9123	Someone standing in a doorway seems to be both in and not-in the room [Priest,G, by Sorensen]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 4. Four-Dimensionalism

14759

A thing is simply a long event, linked by qualities, and spatio-temporal unity [Broad]

11842

If short-lived happenings like car crashes are 'events', why not long-lived events like Dover Cliffs? [Broad]

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 2. Religion in Society

19813

All legislators invoke God in support of extraordinary laws, because their justification is not obvious [Machiavelli]

7126	Rulers should preserve the foundations of religion, to ensure good behaviour and unity [Machiavelli]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / g. Growing block

8160	The present and past exist, but the future does not [Broad, by Dummett]

14609

We could say present and past exist, but not future, so that each event adds to the total history [Broad]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / d. Time series

22933

We imagine the present as a spotlight, moving across events from past to future [Broad]