Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Truth (frags)', 'On Multiplying Entities' and 'talk'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 4. Early European Thought

8011	Aristotle is a buffoon who has misled the Church [Luther, by MacIntyre]

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 6. Ockham's Razor

8207	The quest for simplicity drove scientists to posit new entities, such as molecules in gases [Quine]

8208	In arithmetic, ratios, negatives, irrationals and imaginaries were created in order to generalise [Quine]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events

8205	Explaining events just by bodies can't explain two events identical in space-time [Quine]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity

8206	Necessity could be just generalisation over classes, or (maybe) quantifying over possibilia [Quine]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / e. Fideism

6609	With respect to religion, reason is a blind whore [Luther]