Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The New Organon' and 'Letters'

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9 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / a. Nominalism

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Only individual bodies exist [Bacon]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / c. Form as causal

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There are only individual bodies containing law-based powers, and the Forms are these laws [Bacon]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 2. Aim of Science

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Science must clear away the idols of the mind if they are ever going to find the truth [Bacon]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 1. Artistic Intentions

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When we admire a work, we see ourselves as its creator [Weil]

25. Social Practice / B. Equalities / 1. Grounds of equality

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Relationships depend on equality, so unequal treatment kills them [Weil]

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / b. Education principles

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Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / d. Time as measure

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Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 5. Bible

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The cruelty of the Old Testament put me off Christianity [Weil]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / a. Immortality

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I attach little importance to immortality, which is an undecidable fact, and irrelevant to us [Weil]