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All the ideas for 'The Sceptical Chemist', 'On Providence' and 'Practical Necessity'

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5 ideas

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 10. Impossibility

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Necessity implies possibility, but in experience it matters which comes first [Williams,B]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / a. Nature of happiness

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To be always happy is to lack knowledge of one half of nature [Seneca]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 4. External Goods / a. External goods

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Nothing bad can happen to a good man [Seneca]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / c. Forces

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The ocean changes in volume in proportion to the attraction of the moon [Seneca]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

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I don't see how mere moving matter can lead to the bodies of men and animals, and especially their seeds [Boyle]