Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The New Organon' and 'Outline of a System of the Philosophy of Nature'

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8 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / a. Nominalism

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Only individual bodies exist [Bacon]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / c. Form as causal

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There are only individual bodies containing law-based powers, and the Forms are these laws [Bacon]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / d. Absolute idealism

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For Schelling the Absolute spirit manifests as nature in which self-consciousness evolves [Schelling, by Lewis,PB]

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Metaphysics aims at the Absolute, which goes beyond subjective and objective viewpoints [Schelling, by Pinkard]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention

1556	By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 2. Aim of Science

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Science must clear away the idols of the mind if they are ever going to find the truth [Bacon]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 1. Nature

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Schelling sought a union between the productivities of nature and of the mind [Schelling, by Bowie]

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Schelling made organisms central to nature, because mere mechanism could never produce them [Schelling, by Pinkard]