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All the ideas for 'Science and Method', 'The Analysis of Matter' and 'Giordano Bruno and Hermetic Tradition'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 4. Early European Thought

9288	The magic of Asclepius enters Renaissance thought mixed into Ficino's neo-platonism [Yates]

9291	The dating, in 1614, of the Hermetic writings as post-Christian is the end of the Renaissance [Yates]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 2. Geometry

10245

One geometry cannot be more true than another [Poincaré]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / b. Events as primitive

6402	In 1927, Russell analysed force and matter in terms of events [Russell, by Grayling]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 1. Physical Objects

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A perceived physical object is events grouped around a centre [Russell]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / e. Substance critique

14733

An object produces the same percepts with or without a substance, so that is irrelevant to science [Russell]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism

6418	Russell rejected phenomenalism because it couldn't account for causal relations [Russell, by Grayling]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / a. Concept of matter

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At first matter is basic and known by sense-data; later Russell says matter is constructed [Russell, by Linsky,B]