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Index 267

primordial soup, 152–3, 179, 214 –15,
224 –5
principle of sufficient reason, 122–6
principles self-evident in themselves/to
us, 242–3
Prior, A.N., 49, 203
probabilistic inference, 7, 212–13
probability of beliefs, 43, 212
probability, contextual, 211
proofde re and de dicto, 128–9
propensity, 126, 145–6, 181–2
proper names as predicates, 33–4, 203
properties and sets, 41
proposition, necessary existence of, 30
proprioception, 158
Protagoras, 238, 240
providence, 64, 142, 147, 219, 244,
247
psychocentrism, 24 –5, 213
psychological laws, none, 100, 175
punishment as deterrence, 63–4
purpose, 69, 85, 88–9, 108–9, 111, 121,
136, 145, 165, 167, 178, 212, 216,
224
Putnam, H., 194–7

Quakers, 28
quantification, 33–5, 41, 204, 206, 208
plural, 41
quantifier shift, 118–20
quantifying in, 199–200, 202–4
quantitative/qualitative shift, 93–4, 106,
152–3, 159, 179, 225–6
quantum mechanics, 7, 9–10, 12, 36–7,
40, 54, 63, 125–6, 154–5, 161,
163, 210
many worlds interpretation, 114–15,
125
questions, unanswerable, 32
Quine, W.V.O., ix, 10, 20, 37, 39–41,
55, 157, 162, 172–3, 175, 196,
199–201, 203–4, 207–9, 217

Rainer, A.C.A., 69
randomness, 18–21, 23–4, 83, 144, 224

rational animals, 101, 115–16, 145, 167,

181–2, 227–9

rational inclinations, 145

raw feels, 157–8, 217

real existence of objects (see also basic

entities), 27, 76–8, 83, 85

real things intelligible to us, x, 82–3,

115, 232

reality, 77–8, 101, 133–4, 175–6, 184,

196, 199, 243

as unknowable?, 237–9

independent of mind, x, 4, 77–8,

115, 176, 194 –7, 232–3, 235–40

reason-explanations not causal, 100 –1,

145

reasons, and causes, 64, 98, 111, 145,

167, 181–2

as justification, 64, 167, 181

for acting, 96–7

not antecedent events, 101

relations between, 100

receptivity and activity, 103

reductionism, 82–6, 88, 90–1, 93, 96,

98, 100 –1, 109, 115, 123, 153,

155

ontological/explanatory, 84–5, 88, 91,

153–5, 169, 176, 178, 195–7

translational, 153–4, 176

regularity, explanation of, 110–16, 126,

244

Reid, T., 77

relativism, 11–12, 77–8, 223, 240

conceptual, 195–7

relativity, theory of, 12, 17, 42, 53,

56

religion, absence of as useful, 49

and philosophy, 79–80, 147–8, 151,

182–4, 190 –1, 194

as dispensable, 49–50

as morally improving, 46

as useful, 44 –50

as way of life, 44, 79–80, 182, 190 –1,

217

personal, 79–81, 183–4

religions without God, 28