Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Roots of Reference', 'Fragments on My Philosophical Development' and 'Homeostasis, Species and Higher Taxa'

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4 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived

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Dispositions are physical states of mechanism; when known, these replace the old disposition term [Quine]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / i. Absolute virtues

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Egoism is the only evil, love the only good; genuine love produces all the other virtues [Feuerbach]

26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 4. Source of Kinds

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The properties of an electron can't be explained just as 'clustering' [Chakravartty on Boyd]

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Properties cluster together, either because of intrinsic relations, or because of an underlying process [Boyd, by Chakravartty]