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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / b. Seventeenth century philosophy

7454	Gassendi is the first great empiricist philosopher [Hacking]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance

594	Speusippus suggested underlying principles for every substance, and ended with a huge list [Speussipus, by Aristotle]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 6. Probability

7447	Probability was fully explained between 1654 and 1812 [Hacking]

7448	Probability is statistical (behaviour of chance devices) or epistemological (belief based on evidence) [Hacking]

7449	Epistemological probability based either on logical implications or coherent judgments [Hacking]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 3. Evidentialism / a. Evidence

7450	In the medieval view, only deduction counted as true evidence [Hacking]

7451	Formerly evidence came from people; the new idea was that things provided evidence [Hacking]

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 3. Experiment

7452	An experiment is a test, or an adventure, or a diagnosis, or a dissection [Hacking, by PG]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / a. Types of explanation

7459	Follow maths for necessary truths, and jurisprudence for contingent truths [Hacking]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

6017	Nomos is king [Pindar]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

2632	Speusippus said things were governed by some animal force rather than the gods [Speussipus, by Cicero]