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All the ideas for 'Intellectual Norms and Foundations of Mind', '72: Against Stoics on common Conceptions' and 'Concerning the Author'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics

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The demonstrations of the metaphysicians are all moonshine [Peirce]

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

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I am saturated with the spirit of physical science [Peirce]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 3. Fallibilism

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Infallibility in science is just a joke [Peirce]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 2. Associationism

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Association of ideas is the best philosophical idea of the prescientific age [Peirce]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory

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Duns Scotus offers perhaps the best logic and metaphysics for modern physical science [Peirce]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 7. Strictness of Laws

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If there are no finks or antidotes at the fundamental level, the laws can't be ceteris paribus [Burge, by Corry]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / e. Miracles

5974	People report seeing through rocks, or over the horizon, or impossibly small works [Plutarch]