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All the ideas for 'The Fragmentation of Reason', 'Scientific Thought' and 'Aesthetics: problems in the philosophy of criticism'

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8 ideas

3. Truth / E. Pragmatic Truth / 1. Pragmatic Truth

6627	Radical pragmatists abandon the notion of truth [Stich, by Lowe]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 4. Four-Dimensionalism

14759

A thing is simply a long event, linked by qualities, and spatio-temporal unity [Broad]

11842

If short-lived happenings like car crashes are 'events', why not long-lived events like Dover Cliffs? [Broad]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 5. Rationality / a. Rationality

4765	Stich accepts eliminativism (labelled 'pragmatism') about rationality and normativity [Stich, by Engel]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 6. Value of Art

20436

Art leads to mental health, and mental clarity [Beardsley,M, by Carroll,N]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / g. Growing block

8160	The present and past exist, but the future does not [Broad, by Dummett]

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We could say present and past exist, but not future, so that each event adds to the total history [Broad]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / d. Time series

22933

We imagine the present as a spotlight, moving across events from past to future [Broad]