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All the ideas for 'Intro to 'Philosophical Essays'', 'A General Principle to Explain Laws of Nature' and 'Understanding'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

9786	Philosophers working like teams of scientists is absurd, yet isolation is hard [Cartwright,R]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 2. Invocation to Philosophy

19395

Philosophy is sanctified, because it flows from God [Leibniz]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 6. Coherence

9784	A false proposition isn't truer because it is part of a coherent system [Cartwright,R]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 1. Concept of Identity

19394

Inequality can be brought infinitely close to equality [Leibniz]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

19691

Unlike knowledge, you can achieve understanding through luck [Grimm]

19690

'Grasping' a structure seems to be modal, because we must anticipate its behaviour [Grimm]

19692

You may have 'weak' understanding, if by luck you can answer a set of 'why questions' [Grimm]