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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'On Sufficient Reason' and 'A New Kind of Science'

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6 ideas

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 1. Laws of Thought

19404

Necessities rest on contradiction, and contingencies on sufficient reason [Leibniz]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / g. Applying mathematics

20660

At one level maths and nature are very similar, suggesting some deeper origin [Wolfram]

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]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws

19403

Each of the infinite possible worlds has its own laws, and the individuals contain those laws [Leibniz]

27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 4. Substantival Space

20659

Space and its contents seem to be one stuff - so space is the only existing thing [Wolfram]

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

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