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All the ideas for 'Lectures on Ethics', 'An Essay on Free Will' and 'The New Organon'

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5 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]

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]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 7. Compatibilism

6981	Determinism clashes with free will, as the past determines action, and is beyond our control [Inwagen, by Jackson]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 4. Suicide

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The maxim for suicide is committed to the value of life, and is thus contradictory [Kant]