Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Reason, Emotions and Good Life', 'Theology and Falsification' and 'The Evolution of Physics'

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5 ideas

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / a. Practical reason
4316 Either all action is rational, or reason dominates, or reason is only concerned with means [Cottingham]
27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / b. Fields
18202 The concept of a field gradually replaced the substances in explaining relations between charges [Einstein/Infeld]
29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / b. Religious Meaning
1466 Claims about God don't seem to claim or deny anything tangible, so evidence is irrelevant [Flew, by PG]
29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / d. Religious Falsification
1465 You can't claim a patch of land is tended by a 'gardener' if there is no evidence, and all counter-evidence is rejected [Flew, by PG]
1467 Religious people seem unwilling to accept any evidence that God does not love us, so their claim is unfalsifiable [Flew, by PG]