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All the ideas for 'On the Elements of Being: I', 'Letters to Coste' and 'Nietzsche's System'

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10 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems
20350 Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology [Richardson]
20349 Metaphysics aims at the essence of things, and a system to show how this explains other truths [Richardson]
20351 Metaphysics needs systems, because analysis just obsesses over details [Richardson]
2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 9. Limits of Reason
19433 The universe is infinitely varied, so the Buridan's Ass dilemma could never happen [Leibniz]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 13. Tropes / a. Nature of tropes
8508 A 'trope' is an abstract particular, the occurrence of an essence [Williams,DC]
8509 A world is completely constituted by its tropes and their connections [Williams,DC]
8510 'Socrates is wise' means a concurrence sum contains a member of a similarity set [Williams,DC]
10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / a. Possible worlds
19434 There may be a world where dogs smell their game at a thousand leagues [Leibniz]
24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / a. Human distinctiveness
20356 Humans dominate because, unlike other animals, they have a synthesis of conflicting drives [Richardson]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 7. Eliminating causation
20366 A mind that could see cause and effect as a continuum would deny cause and effect [Richardson]