Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'works', 'Reply to 'Rorarius' 2nd ed' and 'Rules for the Direction of the Mind'

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4 ideas

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]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism

22181

Putnam says anti-realism is a bad explanation of accurate predictions [Putnam, by Okasha]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty

9807	In pursuing truth, anything less certain than mathematics is a waste of time [Descartes]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / b. Relative time

19384

Space and time are the order of all possibilities, and don't just relate to what is actual [Leibniz]