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All the ideas for 'The Courtier and the Heretic', 'Sententia on 'De Caelo'' and 'The Doctrine of Necessity Examined'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly

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Philosophy aims to know the truth about the way things are [Aquinas]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 7. Chance

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Is chance just unknown laws? But the laws operate the same, whatever chance occurs [Peirce]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / e. Death

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Is there any such thing as death among the lower organisms? [Peirce]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 10. Theocracy

7825	The politics of Leibniz was the reunification of Christianity [Stewart,M]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / a. Regularity theory

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If the world is just mechanical, its whole specification has no more explanation than mere chance [Peirce]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature

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The more precise the observations, the less reliable appear to be the laws of nature [Peirce]