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All the ideas for 'Syntagma', 'Giordano Bruno and Hermetic Tradition' and 'The Secret Connexion'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 4. Early European Thought

9288	The magic of Asclepius enters Renaissance thought mixed into Ficino's neo-platonism [Yates]

9291	The dating, in 1614, of the Hermetic writings as post-Christian is the end of the Renaissance [Yates]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes

16730

If matter is entirely atoms, anything else we notice in it can only be modes [Gassendi]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / j. Explanations by reduction

16619

We observe qualities, and use 'induction' to refer to the substances lying under them [Gassendi]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / g. Atomism

16593

Atoms are not points, but hard indivisible things, which no force in nature can divide [Gassendi]

16729

How do mere atoms produce qualities like colour, flavour and odour? [Gassendi]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / a. Constant conjunction

8338	A phenomenalist about objects has to be a regularity theorist about causation [Strawson,G]