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All the ideas for 'Reason, Emotions and Good Life', 'Letter to Pythocles' and 'Steps Towards a Constructive Nominalism'

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5 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / c. Nominalism about abstracta

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We renounce all abstract entities [Goodman/Quine]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 3. Best Explanation / c. Against best explanation

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We should accept as explanations all the plausible ways in which something could come about [Epicurus]

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 / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology

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A cosmos is a collection of stars and an earth, with some sort of boundary, movement and shape [Epicurus]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 3. Deism

1828	God does not intervene in heavenly movements, but is beyond all action and perfectly happy [Epicurus]