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All the ideas for 'Intro to 'Philosophical Essays'', 'Events' and 'The Doctrine of Necessity Examined'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

9786	Philosophers working like teams of scientists is absurd, yet isolation is hard [Cartwright,R]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence

9784	A false proposition isn't truer because it is part of a coherent system [Cartwright,R]

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

9413	An event is a change in or to an object [Lombard, by Mumford]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 7. Chance

14804

Is chance just unknown laws? But the laws operate the same, whatever chance occurs [Peirce]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / e. Death

14805

Is there any such thing as death among the lower organisms? [Peirce]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / a. Regularity theory

14806

If the world is just mechanical, its whole specification has no more explanation than mere chance [Peirce]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature

14803

The more precise the observations, the less reliable appear to be the laws of nature [Peirce]