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All the ideas for 'Subjectivist's Guide to Objective Chance', 'On Recent German Literature. Fragments' and 'The Rationalists'

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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis

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Thoughts are learnt through words, so language shows the limits and shape of our knowledge [Herder]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance

4304	Descartes says there are two substance, Spinoza one, and Leibniz infinitely many [Cottingham]

12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism

4303	The notion of substance lies at the heart of rationalist metaphysics [Cottingham]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

4306	For rationalists, it is necessary that effects be deducible from their causes [Cottingham]

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]