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All the ideas for 'Philosophical Essay on Probability', 'Prologue to Ordinatio' and 'Quaestiones de anima'

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5 ideas

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / d. Form as unifier

16766

One thing needs a single thing to unite it; if there were two forms, something must unite them [Aquinas]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / c. Aim of beliefs

9100	Our intellect only assents to what we believe to be true [William of Ockham]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 7. Testimony

7458	The reliability of witnesses depends on whether they benefit from their observations [Laplace, by Hacking]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 3. Abstraction by mind

9101	Abstractive cognition knows universals abstracted from many singulars [William of Ockham]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism

3441	If a supreme intellect knew all atoms and movements, it could know all of the past and the future [Laplace]