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All the ideas for 'On Divination', 'Steps Towards a Constructive Nominalism' and 'The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge'

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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]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism

8824	No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism

6029	Whoever knows future causes knows everything that will be [Cicero]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

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The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer]