Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Subjectivist's Guide to Objective Chance', 'Letters to Leibniz 1' and 'Entity and Identity'

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4 ideas

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / b. Need for abstracta

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We need a logical use of 'object' as predicate-worthy, and an 'ontological' use [Strawson,P]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences

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It makes no sense to ask of some individual thing what it is that makes it that individual [Strawson,P]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / b. Best system theory

9425	Lewis later proposed the axioms at the intersection of the best theories (which may be few) [Mumford on Lewis]

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

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I won't object if someone shows that gravity consistently arises from the action of matter [Newton]