Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Leibniz: Guide for the Perplexed', 'Tractatus de corpore Christi' and 'On the Cosmos (lost)'

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10 ideas

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 6. Ockham's Razor
16676 Why use more things when fewer will do? [William of Ockham]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / a. Intrinsic unification
472 No things would be clear to us as entity or relationships unless there existed Number and its essence [Philolaus]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / d. Substance defined
19347 Substance needs independence, unity, and stability (for individuation); also it is a subject, for predicates [Perkins]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 4. Mathematical Nature
1518 Everything must involve numbers, or it couldn't be thought about or known [Philolaus]
473 There is no falsehood in harmony and number, only in irrational things [Philolaus]
1519 Harmony must pre-exist the cosmos, to bring the dissimilar sources together [Philolaus]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / d. The unlimited
469 Existing things, and hence the Cosmos, are a mixture of the Limited and the Unlimited [Philolaus]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / b. Corpuscles
16675 Every extended material substance is composed of parts distant from one another [William of Ockham]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 6. Laws as Numerical
476 Self-created numbers make the universe stable [Philolaus]
27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology
1787 Philolaus was the first person to say the earth moves in a circle [Philolaus, by Diog. Laertius]