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All the ideas for 'works', 'Process and Reality' and 'Formal and Transcendental Logic'

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10 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / c. Classical philosophy
7719 European philosophy consists of a series of footnotes to Plato [Whitehead]
1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 1. Aims of Science
6782 Realism is the only philosophy of science that doesn't make the success of science a miracle [Putnam]
5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 1. Ontology of Logic
21222 Logicians presuppose a world, and ignore logic/world connections, so their logic is impure [Husserl, by Velarde-Mayol]
21223 Phenomenology grounds logic in subjective experience [Husserl, by Velarde-Mayol]
5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 2. Domain of Quantification
10656 With 'extensive connection', boundary elements are not included in domains [Whitehead, by Varzi]
6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 1. Foundations for Mathematics
21224 Pure mathematics is the relations between all possible objects, and is thus formal ontology [Husserl, by Velarde-Mayol]
7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes
15389 In Whitehead 'processes' consist of events beginning and ending [Whitehead, by Simons]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism
22181 Putnam says anti-realism is a bad explanation of accurate predictions [Putnam, by Okasha]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation
15247 Whitehead held that perception was a necessary feature of all causation [Whitehead, by Harré/Madden]
27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 3. Points in Space
16962 Whitehead replaced points with extended regions [Whitehead, by Quine]