Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'On Providence' and 'The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge'

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7 ideas

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism

8824	No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / a. Nature of happiness

13550

To be always happy is to lack knowledge of one half of nature [Seneca]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 4. External Goods / a. External goods

13549

Nothing bad can happen to a good man [Seneca]

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 / d. Causal necessity

15251

The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / c. Forces

13548

The ocean changes in volume in proportion to the attraction of the moon [Seneca]

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]