Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'In Defense of a Dogma', 'Letters to Coste' and 'Causation and the Flow of Energy'

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5 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason

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The universe is infinitely varied, so the Buridan's Ass dilemma could never happen [Leibniz]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / a. Possible worlds

19434

There may be a world where dogs smell their game at a thousand leagues [Leibniz]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 8. Synonymy

7319	If we give up synonymy, we have to give up significance, meaning and sense [Grice/Strawson]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation

8326	Science has shown that causal relations are just transfers of energy or momentum [Fair, by Sosa/Tooley]

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Fair shifted his view to talk of counterfactuals about energy flow [Fair, by Schaffer,J]