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All the ideas for 'Empiricist View of Religion', 'fragments/reports' and 'Philosophy without Intuitions'

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7 ideas

2. Reason / E. Argument / 7. Thought Experiments

20183

So-called 'though experiments' are just philosophers observing features of the world [Cappelen]

12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 2. Intuition

20182

The word 'intuitive' often plays not role at all in arguments, and can be removed [Cappelen]

19. Language / F. Communication / 3. Denial

1554	Contradiction is impossible, since only one side of the argument refers to the true facts [Prodicus, by Didymus the Blind]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / c. Teleological Proof critique

1555	People used to think anything helpful to life was a god, as the Egyptians think the Nile a god [Prodicus]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

535	The gods are just personified human benefits [Prodicus]

1543	He denied the existence of the gods, saying they are just exaltations of things useful for life [Prodicus]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 1. Religious Commitment / b. Religious Meaning

1468	If meaning is use, then religious sentences have meaning because they are used to assert an intention about how to live [Braithwaite, by PG]