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'Thinking About Mathematics', 'New Essays on Human Understanding' and 'Critique of Pure Reason'
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / a. Scientific essentialism
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Qualities should be predictable from the nature of the subject [Leibniz]
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Gold has a real essence, unknown to us, which produces its properties [Leibniz]
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Part of our idea of gold is its real essence, which is not known to us in detail [Leibniz]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / b. Scientific necessity
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For Kant the laws must be necessary, because contingency would destroy representation [Kant, by Meillassoux]
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Kant fails to prove the necessity of laws, because his reasoning about chance is over-ambitious [Meillassoux on Kant]
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