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Date: Tuesday 9th January 2007
Time: 13:50 – 14:00 (afternoon)
Venue: Sports Hall
1. Answer TWO questions. Each question carries equal marks.
2. You may not answer a question previously chosen as an essay.
3. You may take NO MORE THAN 200 words of notes into the examination,
which must be handed in with the script at the end.
1. Is a thing a 'construct'?
2. Might a thing lose all its properties?
3. '…Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves; the rose for its scent: the nightingale for its song: and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address the lyrics [to] themselves, and should turn them into odes of self-congratulation on the excellency of the human mind. Nature is a dull affair, soundless, scentless, colourless; merely the hurrying of material, endless and meaningless.' Alfred North Whitehead, in The Concept of Nature. Is he right?
4. Might there be some experiences we can't even imagine?
5. Might it once have been true that nothing whatever was happening?
6. Might there be two people with exactly the same properties?
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