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

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4 ideas

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

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We renounce all abstract entities [Goodman/Quine]

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 / A. Classical Physics / 2. Thermodynamics / b. Heat

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Heat is a state of vibration, not a substance [Joule]

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Joule showed that energy converts to heat, and heat to energy [Joule, by Papineau]