Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Science and Method', 'A General Principle to Explain Laws of Nature' and 'The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 2. Invocation to Philosophy

19395

Philosophy is sanctified, because it flows from God [Leibniz]

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

10245

One geometry cannot be more true than another [Poincaré]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 1. Concept of Identity

19394

Inequality can be brought infinitely close to equality [Leibniz]

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

8824	No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

15251

The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer]