
#143- Feser's Scholastic Metaphysics Part 1
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The Angels Always Say, Be Not Afraid
Scientific theories serve to facilitate the survey of our observations and experimental findings. Every scientist knows how difficult it is to remember a moderately extended group of facts before at least some primitive theoretical picture about them has been shaped. So this is my point, in his words, which are better than mine, about the fact that, you know, these laws aren't graven in stone somewhere. They are heuristic. They are the way we think about falling objects or whatever. In rand told us that philosophy matters in an essay. If they exist, they are intellet well, thomas would say they are purein intellectsnd if one shows up, it's a big deal. What's
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