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All the ideas for 'works (all lost)', 'Aspects of Scientific Explanation' and 'Of Organum or Ars Magna of Thinking'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 1. Nature of Analysis

5021	An idea is analysed perfectly when it is shown a priori that it is possible [Leibniz]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / d. Rational foundations

5020	Our thoughts are either dependent, or self-evident. All thoughts seem to end in the self-evident [Leibniz]

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 4. Prediction

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Explanatory facts also predict, and predictive facts also explain [Hempel, by Okasha]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / e. Lawlike explanations

6755	For Hempel, explanations are deductive-nomological or probabilistic-statistical [Hempel, by Bird]

17083

The covering-law model is for scientific explanation; historical explanation is quite different [Hempel]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / g. Causal explanations

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Hempel rejects causation as part of explanation [Hempel, by Salmon]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness

5019	Supreme human happiness is the greatest possible increase of his perfection [Leibniz]