Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Representation in Music' and 'Evil and Omnipotence'

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6 ideas

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention
1556 By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]
21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 4. Art as Expression
12167 Reference without predication is the characteristic of expression [Scruton]
21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 5. Art as Language
12166 If music refers to love, it contains no predication, so it is expression, not language [Scruton]
21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 8. The Arts / a. Music
12168 Music is not representational, since thoughts about a subject are never essential to it [Scruton]
29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 3. Problem of Evil / a. Problem of Evil
1472 The propositions that God is good and omnipotent, and that evil exists, are logically contradictory [Mackie, by PG]
1473 Is evil an illusion, or a necessary contrast, or uncontrollable, or necessary for human free will? [Mackie, by PG]