Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Theory of Transfinite Numbers', 'Causation and the Flow of Energy' and 'De aequopollentia causae et effectus'

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5 ideas

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 1. Set Theory

9616	A set is a collection into a whole of distinct objects of our intuition or thought [Cantor]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / f. Uncountable infinities

15896

Cantor needed Power Set for the reals, but then couldn't count the new collections [Cantor, by Lavine]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 1. Powers

12735

Everything has a fixed power, as required by God, and by the possibility of reasoning [Leibniz]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation

8326	Science has shown that causal relations are just transfers of energy or momentum [Fair, by Sosa/Tooley]

10379

Fair shifted his view to talk of counterfactuals about energy flow [Fair, by Schaffer,J]