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All the ideas for 'Possible Worlds', 'The Philosophical Culture' and 'Seven Types of Atheism'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism

1489	Modern philosophy tends to be a theory-constructing extension of science, but there is also problem-solving [Nagel]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 2. Nature of Possible Worlds / a. Nature of possible worlds

15793

We can take 'ways things might have been' as irreducible elements in our ontology [Stalnaker, by Lycan]

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

23061

Free atheism should start by questioning its faith in humanity [Gray]

29. Religion / A. Polytheistic Religion / 4. Dualist Religion

23057

Gnosticism has a supreme creator God, giving way to a possibly hostile Demiurge [Gray]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 2. Judaism

23056

Judaism only became monotheistic around 550 BCE [Gray]

29. Religion / B. Monotheistic Religion / 4. Christianity / a. Christianity

23055

Christians introduced the idea that a religion needs a creed [Gray]

29. Religion / C. Spiritual Disciplines / 3. Buddhism

23058

Buddhism has no divinity or souls, and the aim is to lose the illusion of a self [Gray]