Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'What is Mathematical Truth?', 'On Minerals' and 'fragments/reports'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 4. Divisions of Philosophy

20771

Six parts: dialectic, rhetoric, ethics, politics, physics, theology [Cleanthes, by Diog. Laertius]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / a. Hylomorphism

16756

Substantial forms must exist, to explain the stability of metals like silver and tin [Albertus Magnus]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

10269

Mathematics eliminates possibility, as being simultaneous actuality in sets [Putnam]

17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 8. Dualism of Mind Critique

6028	Bodies interact with other bodies, and cuts cause pain, and shame causes blushing, so the soul is a body [Cleanthes, by Nemesius]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind

20831

The soul suffers when the body hurts, creates redness from shame, and pallor from fear [Cleanthes]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / b. Teleological Proof

5993	The ascending scale of living creatures requires a perfect being [Cleanthes, by Tieleman]