Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'poems', 'On the Frame of Reference' and 'The Character of Physical Law'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy

15970

People generalise because it is easier to understand, and that is mistaken for deep philosophy [Feynman]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 4. Substitutional Quantification

10009

Substitutional quantification is just a variant of Tarski's account [Wallace, by Baldwin]

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

6017	Nomos is king [Pindar]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / a. Regularity theory

9410	Physical Laws are rhythms and patterns in nature, revealed by analysis [Feynman]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / d. Quantum mechanics

18530

Nobody understands quantum mechanics [Feynman]

27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 3. Points in Space

17707

We should regard space as made up of many tiny pieces [Feynman, by Mares]