Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'works', 'On Sufficient Reason' and 'The Problem of Empty Names'

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4 ideas

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

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

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / e. Empty names

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Unreflectively, we all assume there are nonexistents, and we can refer to them [Reimer]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 2. Domain of Quantification

17743

De Morgan introduced a 'universe of discourse', to replace Boole's universe of 'all things' [De Morgan, by Walicki]

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]