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All the ideas for 'The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics', 'Leibniz' and 'Il Saggiatore ('The Assayer')'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics

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Metaphysics is the most general attempt to make sense of things [Moore,AW]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

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Early modern possibility is what occurs sometime; for Leibniz, it is what is not contradictory [Arthur,R]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 3. Idealism / b. Transcendental idealism

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Appearances are nothing beyond representations, which is transcendental ideality [Moore,AW]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / d. Secondary qualities

7401	Heat and colour don't exist, so cannot mislead about the external world [Galileo, by Tuck]

5454	Tastes, odours and colours only reside in consciousness, and would disappear with creatures [Galileo]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / i. Explanations by mechanism

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Galileo introduced geometrico-mechanical explanation, based on Archimedes [Galileo, by Machamer/Darden/Craver]

17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 4. Occasionalism

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Occasionalism contradicts the Eucharist, which needs genuine changes of substance [Arthur,R]

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

3645	To understand the universe mathematics is essential [Galileo]