Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Philosophical Culture', 'Gdel's Proof' and 'On the Source of Necessity'

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5 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]

4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 3. Modal Logic Systems / g. System S4

15102

S4 says there must be some necessary truths (the actual ones, of which there is at least one) [Cameron]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 1. Sources of Necessity

15103

Blackburn fails to show that the necessary cannot be grounded in the contingent [Cameron]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 5. Rationality / b. Human rationality

9591	The human intellect has not been, and cannot be, fully formalized [Nagel/Newman]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / f. Eternalism

15104

The 'moving spotlight' theory makes one time privileged, while all times are on a par ontologically [Cameron]