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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Letter to Bramhall' and 'On the Very Idea of a Third Dogma'

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5 ideas

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / a. Hylomorphism

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A chair is wood, and its shape is the form; it isn't 'compounded' of the matter and form [Hobbes]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism

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Essence is just an artificial word from logic, giving a way of thinking about substances [Hobbes]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / a. Translation

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Translation is too flimsy a notion to support theories of cultural incommensurability [Quine]

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]