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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Definitiones cogitationesque metaphysicae' and 'Croce and Collingwood'

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8 ideas

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / d. Substance defined

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Substance is that which can act [Leibniz]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 3. Best Explanation / b. Ultimate explanation

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Nature can be fully explained by final causes alone, or by efficient causes alone [Leibniz]

21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 1. Aesthetics

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By 1790 aestheticians were mainly trying to explain individual artistic genius [Kemp]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 4. Art as Expression

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Expression can be either necessary for art, or sufficient for art (or even both) [Kemp]

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We don't already know what to express, and then seek means of expressing it [Kemp]

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The horror expressed in some works of art could equallly be expressed by other means [Kemp]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

5989	Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]