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All the ideas for 'Queries to the 'Opticks'', 'Apprehension: reason in absence of Rules' and 'Philosophy and Scientific Image of Man'

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4 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / c. Philosophy as generalisation

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Philosophy aims to understand how things (broadly understood) hang together (broadly understood) [Sellars]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 2. Reduction

6550	Reduction requires that an object's properties consist of its constituents' properties and relations [Sellars]

12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 1. Common Sense

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Apprehension is a complex intellect grasping the essence of a complex object [Holt,L]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 1. Laws of Nature

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Principles of things are not hidden features of forms, but the laws by which they were formed [Newton]