Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Against Method', 'Ethics of Ambiguity' and 'Letters to Bentley'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

9 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 1. Aims of Science
6601 Science rules the globe because of colonising power, not inherent rationality [Feyerabend]
6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / a. Numbers
13152 We can talk of 'innumerable number', about the infinite points on a line [Newton]
6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / a. The Infinite
13151 Not all infinites are equal [Newton]
14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 6. Theory Holism
2561 For Feyerabend the meaning of a term depends on a whole theory [Feyerabend, by Rorty]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 3. Angst
20761 If existence is absurd it can never have a meaning [Beauvoir]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 1. Laws of Nature
15863 The principles of my treatise are designed to fit with a belief in God [Newton]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / a. Regularity theory
8340 I do not pretend to know the cause of gravity [Newton]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / e. Anti scientific essentialism
13150 The motions of the planets could only derive from an intelligent agent [Newton]
12178 That gravity should be innate and essential to matter is absurd [Newton]