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All the ideas for 'Quodlibeta', 'works' and 'The Evolution of Physics'

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7 ideas

4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 3. Modal Logic Systems / h. System S5

7791	The simplest of the logics based on possible worlds is Lewis's S5 [Lewis,CI, by Girle]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes

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Whiteness does not exist, but by it something can exist-as-white [Aquinas]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 2. Nature of Necessity

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Equating necessity with informal provability is the S4 conception of necessity [Lewis,CI, by Read]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

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Senses grasp external properties, but the understanding grasps the essential natures of things [Aquinas]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 3. Innate Knowledge / a. Innate knowledge

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Initial universal truths are present within us as potential, to be drawn out by reason [Aquinas]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 3. Representation

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Minds take in a likeness of things, which activates an awaiting potential [Aquinas]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / b. Fields

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The concept of a field gradually replaced the substances in explaining relations between charges [Einstein/Infeld]