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All the ideas for 'On Motion', 'De Essentia' and 'Popular Scientific Lectures'

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3 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 2. Positivism

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Laws of nature are just records of regularities and correlations, with concepts to make recording them easier [Mach, by Harré]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / d. Individuation by haecceity

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A snowball's haecceity is the property of being identical with itself [Plantinga, by Westerhoff]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 1. Relativity / a. Special relativity

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Motion is not absolute, but consists in relation [Leibniz]