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All the ideas for 'The Character of Physical Law', 'Bertrand Russell: Spirit of Solitude' and 'On the Elements of Being: I'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy
15970 People generalise because it is easier to understand, and that is mistaken for deep philosophy [Feynman]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes
8510 'Socrates is wise' means a concurrence sum contains a member of a similarity set [Williams,DC]
8508 A 'trope' is an abstract particular, the occurrence of an essence [Williams,DC]
8509 A world is completely constituted by its tropes and their connections [Williams,DC]
18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 6. Judgement / a. Nature of Judgement
7535 If all beliefs are propositional, then belief and judgement are the same thing [Monk]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / a. Regularity theory
9410 Physical Laws are rhythms and patterns in nature, revealed by analysis [Feynman]
27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / d. Quantum mechanics
18530 Nobody understands quantum mechanics [Feynman]
27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 3. Points in Space
17707 We should regard space as made up of many tiny pieces [Feynman, by Mares]