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All the ideas for 'Ethical Studies', 'Reflections on Knowledge, Truth and Ideas' and 'Letters to Thomasius'

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7 ideas

2. Reason / D. Definition / 1. Definitions

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'Nominal' definitions just list distinguishing characteristics [Leibniz]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects

13432

The essence of a circle is the equality of its radii [Leibniz]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 1. Knowledge

19424

Knowledge needs clarity, distinctness, and adequacy, and it should be intuitive [Leibniz]

18. Thought / C. Content / 2. Ideas

19427

True ideas represent what is possible; false ideas represent contradictions [Leibniz]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness

5655	Happiness is not satisfaction of desires, but fulfilment of values [Bradley, by Scruton]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 2. Types of cause

19425

In the schools the Four Causes are just lumped together in a very obscure way [Leibniz]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

12696

Bodies are recreated in motion, and don't exist in intervening instants [Leibniz]