Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Lewis's Programme' and 'De modo distinguendi phaenomena'

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7 ideas

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism
12741 If experience is just a dream, it is still real enough if critical reason is never deceived [Leibniz]
12740 The strongest criterion that phenomena show reality is success in prediction [Leibniz]
10. Modality / B. Possibility / 9. Counterfactuals
8431 Problems with Goodman's view of counterfactuals led to a radical approach from Stalnaker and Lewis [Horwich]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / e. Primary/secondary critique
12721 Light, heat and colour are apparent qualities, and so are motion, figure and extension [Leibniz]
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 / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / c. Counterfactual causation
8432 Analyse counterfactuals using causation, not the other way around [Horwich]
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]