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'Parmenides', 'Scientific Essentialism' and 'Letters to Samuel Clarke'
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2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 1. On Reason
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When questions are doubtful we should concentrate not on objects but on ideas of the intellect [Plato]
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2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 2. Sufficient Reason
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The principle of sufficient reason is needed if we are to proceed from maths to physics [Leibniz]
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There is always a reason why things are thus rather than otherwise [Leibniz]
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No reason could limit the quantity of matter, so there is no limit [Leibniz]
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2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 5. Opposites
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Opposites are as unlike as possible [Plato]
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2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic
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Plato's 'Parmenides' is the greatest artistic achievement of the ancient dialectic [Hegel on Plato]
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