Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'God and Human Attributes', 'On Perceptions' and 'On the Nature of Moral Values'

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7 ideas

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth

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Science is sympathetic to truth as correspondence, since it depends on observation [Quine]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism

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If we are dreaming, it is sufficient that the events are coherent, and obey laws [Leibniz]

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 4. Prediction

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Successful prediction shows proficiency in nature [Leibniz]

14. Science / C. Induction / 2. Aims of Induction

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More careful inductions gradually lead to the hypothetico-deductive method [Quine]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / a. Nature of value

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Altruistic values concern other persons, and ceremonial values concern practices [Quine]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / g. Love

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Love seems to diminish with distance from oneself [Quine]

28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / c. Moral Argument

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God must be fit for worship, but worship abandons morally autonomy, but there is no God [Rachels, by Davies,B]