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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Doctrine of Necessity Examined' and 'Relations'

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9 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations
21354 It may be that internal relations like proportion exist, because we directly perceive it [MacBride]
8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 2. Internal Relations
21353 Internal relations are fixed by existences, or characters, or supervenience on characters [MacBride]
8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 4. Formal Relations / a. Types of relation
21352 'Multigrade' relations are those lacking a fixed number of relata [MacBride]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 7. Chance
14804 Is chance just unknown laws? But the laws operate the same, whatever chance occurs [Peirce]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / e. Death
14805 Is there any such thing as death among the lower organisms? [Peirce]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / b. Education principles
13304 Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / a. Regularity theory
14806 If the world is just mechanical, its whole specification has no more explanation than mere chance [Peirce]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature
14803 The more precise the observations, the less reliable appear to be the laws of nature [Peirce]
27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / d. Time as measure
20820 Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus]