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All the ideas for 'Two Problems of Epistemology', 'Ethical consistency' and 'Philosophy and Scientific Image of Man'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / c. Philosophy as generalisation

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Philosophy aims to understand how things (broadly understood) hang together (broadly understood) [Sellars]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 2. Reduction

6550	Reduction requires that an object's properties consist of its constituents' properties and relations [Sellars]

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 6. Falsification

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Particulars can be verified or falsified, but general statements can only be falsified (conclusively) [Popper]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 5. Action Dilemmas / a. Dilemmas

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Many ethical theories neglect the power of regretting the ought not acted upon [Williams,B]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism

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Moral conflicts have a different feeling and structure from belief conflicts [Williams,B, by Foot]