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All the ideas for 'On 'Generation and Corruption'', 'On Providence' and 'On the Nature of Mathematical Reasoning'

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / d. Actual infinite

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Poincaré rejected the actual infinite, claiming definitions gave apparent infinity to finite objects [Poincaré, by Lavine]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / d. Secondary qualities

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Changes in secondary qualities are caused by changes in primary qualities [Giles of Orleans]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / a. Nature of happiness

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To be always happy is to lack knowledge of one half of nature [Seneca]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 4. External Goods / a. External goods

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Nothing bad can happen to a good man [Seneca]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / c. Forces

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The ocean changes in volume in proportion to the attraction of the moon [Seneca]