Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Friedrich Schlegel, Gottfried Leibniz and Richard Cumberland

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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 1. On Reason
16897 Reason is the faculty for grasping apriori necessary truths [Leibniz, by Burge]
13009 A reason is a known truth which leads to assent to some further truth [Leibniz]
2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 3. Pure Reason
19335 Reasonings have a natural ordering in God's understanding, but only a temporal order in ours [Leibniz]
2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 4. Aims of Reason
5035 The two basics of reasoning are contradiction and sufficient reason [Leibniz]
3346 For Leibniz rationality is based on non-contradiction and the principle of sufficient reason [Leibniz, by Benardete,JA]
2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 7. Status of Reason
6222 If a decision is in accord with right reason, everyone can agree with it [Cumberland]
12963 Opposing reason is opposing truth, since reason is a chain of truths [Leibniz]
2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason
19433 The universe is infinitely varied, so the Buridan's Ass dilemma could never happen [Leibniz]
2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 1. Laws of Thought
19404 Necessities rest on contradiction, and contingencies on sufficient reason [Leibniz]
19360 General principles, even if unconscious, are indispensable for thinking [Leibniz]
2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 2. Sufficient Reason
2104 No reason could limit the quantity of matter, so there is no limit [Leibniz]
2098 The principle of sufficient reason is needed if we are to proceed from maths to physics [Leibniz]
3646 There is always a reason why things are thus rather than otherwise [Leibniz]
5042 For every event it is possible for an omniscient being to give a reason for its occurrence [Leibniz]
3347 Leibniz said the principle of sufficient reason is synthetic a priori, since its denial is not illogical [Leibniz, by Benardete,JA]
4642 No fact can be real and no proposition true unless there is a Sufficient Reason (even if we can't know it) [Leibniz]
2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 6. Ockham's Razor
19342 Reason avoids multiplying hypotheses or principles [Leibniz]
2. Reason / D. Definition / 1. Definitions
19426 'Nominal' definitions just list distinguishing characteristics [Leibniz]
2. Reason / D. Definition / 3. Types of Definition
12983 A nominal definition is of the qualities, but the real definition is of the essential inner structure [Leibniz]
2. Reason / D. Definition / 4. Real Definition
12915 Definitions can only be real if the item is possible [Leibniz]
12982 One essence can be expressed by several definitions [Leibniz]
12976 If our ideas of a thing are imperfect, the thing can have several unconnected definitions [Leibniz]
12984 Real definitions, unlike nominal definitions, display possibilities [Leibniz]
2. Reason / D. Definition / 5. Genus and Differentia
12980 Genus and differentia might be swapped, and 'rational animal' become 'animable rational' [Leibniz]
2. Reason / E. Argument / 6. Conclusive Proof
8627 Leibniz is inclined to regard all truths as provable [Leibniz, by Frege]