Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Structure and Nature', 'The World' and 'The Lagoon: how Aristotle invented science'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 2. Ancient Philosophy / b. Pre-Socratic philosophy

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The Pre-Socratics are not simple naturalists, because they do not always 'leave the gods out' [Leroi]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 7. Mathematical Structuralism / a. Structuralism

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I apply structuralism to concrete and abstract objects indiscriminately [Quine]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism

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My ontology is quarks etc., classes of such things, classes of such classes etc. [Quine]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / d. Secondary qualities

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Our sensation of light may not be the same as what produces the sensation [Descartes]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / f. Ancient elements

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The Hot, Cold, Wet and Dry of the philosophers need themselves to be explained [Descartes]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / b. Laws of motion

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Descartes said there was conservation of 'quantity of motion' [Descartes, by Papineau]