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All the ideas for 'Concerning the Author', 'fragments/reports' and 'Letters to Remond de Montmort'

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10 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics

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The demonstrations of the metaphysicians are all moonshine [Peirce]

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism

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I am saturated with the spirit of physical science [Peirce]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 2. Necessity as Primitive

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Some necessary truths are brute, and others derive from final causes [Leibniz]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 3. Fallibilism

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Infallibility in science is just a joke [Peirce]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 2. Associationism

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Association of ideas is the best philosophical idea of the prescientific age [Peirce]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory

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Duns Scotus offers perhaps the best logic and metaphysics for modern physical science [Peirce]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / c. Parts of consciousness

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Our large perceptions and appetites are made up tiny unconscious fragments [Leibniz]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / c. Role of emotions

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Passions reside in confused perceptions [Leibniz]

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 6. Animal Rights

6005	Animals are dangerous and nourishing, and can't form contracts of justice [Hermarchus, by Sedley]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 2. Divine Nature

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God produces possibilities, and thus ideas [Leibniz]