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All the ideas for 'poems', 'Freedom and Reason' and 'The Dappled World'

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5 ideas

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory

17503

Theories can never represent accurately, because their components are abstract [Cartwright,N, by Portides]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / i. Prescriptivism

22331

Moral statements are imperatives rather than the avowals of emotion - but universalisable [Hare, by Glock]

22484

Universalised prescriptivism could be seen as implying utilitarianism [Hare, by Foot]

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

6017	Nomos is king [Pindar]

23. Ethics / D. Deontological Ethics / 4. Categorical Imperative

6449	The categorical imperative leads to utilitarianism [Hare, by Nagel]