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All the ideas for 'Classical Cosmology (frags)', 'On the Conservation of Force' and 'Philosophy and Scientific Image of Man'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / c. Philosophy as generalisation

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Philosophy aims to understand how things (broadly understood) hang together (broadly understood) [Sellars]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 2. Reduction

6550	Reduction requires that an object's properties consist of its constituents' properties and relations [Sellars]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 2. Thermodynamics / a. Energy

20646

Helmholtz used 'energy' to mathematically link heat, light, electricity and magnetism [Helmholtz, by Watson]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 2. Thermodynamics / c. Conservation of energy

20973

All forces conserve the sum of kinetic and potential energy [Helmholtz, by Papineau]

27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology

5994	Is the cosmos open or closed, mechanical or teleological, alive or inanimate, and created or eternal? [Robinson,TM, by PG]