Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'A World of Propensities', 'works' and 'Nine political essays'

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4 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 7. Against Powers
11946 Propensities are part of a situation, not part of the objects [Popper]
14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory
22363 You have only begun to do real science when you can express it in numbers [Kelvin]
25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 4. Property rights
6581 Hume thought (unlike Locke) that property is a merely conventional relationship [Hume, by Fogelin]
27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 2. Thermodynamics / a. Energy
20644 Energy has progressed from a mere formula, to a principle pervading all nature [Kelvin]