Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Union of Body and Soul', 'The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge' and 'Letters to Hugo Boxel'

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4 ideas

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism
No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim]
21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 5. Natural Beauty
The most beautiful hand seen through the microscope will appear horrible [Spinoza]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity
A true cause must involve a necessary connection between cause and effect [Malebranche]
The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer]