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All the ideas for 'The Value of Science', 'What is innate and why' and 'The Tragic Sense of Life'

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4 ideas

18. Thought / B. Mechanics of Thought / 4. Language of Thought

2605	If everything uses mentalese, ALL concepts must be innate! [Putnam]

2606	No machine language can express generalisations [Putnam]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / a. Human distinctiveness

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Maybe humans are distinguished from other animals by feelings, rather than reason [Unamuno]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature

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The aim of science is just to create a comprehensive, elegant language to describe brute facts [Poincaré, by Harré]