Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Events and Their Names', 'Letters to Varignon' and 'Of the standard of taste'

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5 ideas

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events
8978 Events are made of other things, and are not fundamental to ontology [Bennett]
21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 2. Aesthetic Attitude
18552 Forget about beauty; just concentrate on the virtues of delicacy and discernment admired in critics [Hume, by Scruton]
21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 3. Taste
6608 Strong sense, delicate sentiment, practice, comparisons, and lack of prejudice, are all needed for good taste [Hume]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata
10364 Facts are about the world, not in it, so they can't cause anything [Bennett]
27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution
19414 Men are related to animals, which are related to plants, then to fossils, and then to the apparently inert [Leibniz]