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All the ideas for 'Process Philosophy', 'Il Saggiatore ('The Assayer')' and 'fragments/reports'

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8 ideas

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

19480

Process philosophy places the dynamic nature of being at the centre of our theories [Seibt]

19479

Reductionists identify processes by their 'owner', but tornadoes etc. are processes without owners [Seibt]

19481

Traditionally small things add up to processes, but quantum mechanics reverses this [Seibt]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / d. Secondary qualities

7401	Heat and colour don't exist, so cannot mislead about the external world [Galileo, by Tuck]

5454	Tastes, odours and colours only reside in consciousness, and would disappear with creatures [Galileo]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 3. Internal or External / a. Pro-internalism

604	Knowledge is mind and knowing 'cohabiting' [Lycophron, by Aristotle]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / i. Explanations by mechanism

16560

Galileo introduced geometrico-mechanical explanation, based on Archimedes [Galileo, by Machamer/Darden/Craver]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 4. Mathematical Nature

3645	To understand the universe mathematics is essential [Galileo]