Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Roots of Reference', 'The Therapy of Desire' and 'On the Conservation of Force'

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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]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / b. Eudaimonia

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Philosophers after Aristotle endorsed the medical analogy for eudaimonia [Nussbaum, by Flanagan]

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

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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

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