Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Predest.,God's foreknowledge and contingents', 'The Structure of Science' and 'Eliminative Materialism and Prop. Attitudes'

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4 ideas

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 2. Reduction
Reduction has been defined as deriving one theory from another by logic and maths [Nagel,E, by Kim]
7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism
Our words and concepts don't always correspond to what is out there [William of Ockham]
17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 3. Eliminativism
Folk psychology may not be reducible, but that doesn't make it false [Kirk,R on Churchland,PM]
Eliminative materialism says folk psychology will be replaced, not reduced [Churchland,PM]