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All the ideas for 'Holism: a Shopper's Guide', 'talk' and 'Process and Reality'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / c. Classical philosophy

7719	European philosophy consists of a series of footnotes to Plato [Whitehead]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 2. Domain of Quantification

10656

With 'extensive connection', boundary elements are not included in domains [Whitehead, by Varzi]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 2. Processes

15389

In Whitehead 'processes' consist of events beginning and ending [Whitehead, by Simons]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 6. Platonic Forms / b. Partaking

6900	A prior understanding of beauty is needed to assert that the Form of the Beautiful is beautiful [Westaway]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts

6956	At what point does an object become 'whole'? [Westaway]

17. Mind and Body / C. Functionalism / 7. Chinese Room

7335	The Chinese Room should be able to ask itself questions in Mandarin [Westaway]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / b. Language holism

9381	If some inferences are needed to fix meaning, but we don't know which, they are all relevant [Fodor/Lepore, by Boghossian]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation

15247

Whitehead held that perception was a necessary feature of all causation [Whitehead, by Harré/Madden]

27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 3. Points in Space

16962

Whitehead replaced points with extended regions [Whitehead, by Quine]