Atheism and Theism JJ Haldane - Common Sense Atheism

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
proof de 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
Index 267
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