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Ideas for 'Subjectivist's Guide to Objective Chance', 'The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding' and 'On the Cosmos (lost)'

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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 4. Mathematical Nature

1518	Everything must involve numbers, or it couldn't be thought about or known [Philolaus]

1519	Harmony must pre-exist the cosmos, to bring the dissimilar sources together [Philolaus]

473	There is no falsehood in harmony and number, only in irrational things [Philolaus]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / d. The unlimited

469	Existing things, and hence the Cosmos, are a mixture of the Limited and the Unlimited [Philolaus]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / b. Best system theory

9425	Lewis later proposed the axioms at the intersection of the best theories (which may be few) [Mumford on Lewis]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 6. Laws as Numerical

476	Self-created numbers make the universe stable [Philolaus]