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All the ideas for 'Aristotle and Descartes on Matter', 'Dialogue on Things and Words' and 'The Scope and Language of Science'

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6 ideas

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 5. Truth Bearers
19389 Truth is a characteristic of possible thoughts [Leibniz]
19388 True and false seem to pertain to thoughts, yet unthought propositions seem to be true or false [Leibniz]
6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 6. Mathematics as Set Theory / a. Mathematics is set theory
8463 Maths can be reduced to logic and set theory [Quine]
8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 1. Nature of Properties
8461 The category of objects incorporates the old distinction of substances and their modes [Quine]
17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 6. Conceptual Dualism
8462 A hallucination can, like an ague, be identified with its host; the ontology is physical, the idiom mental [Quine]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / b. Prime matter
19399 Prime matter is nothing when it is at rest [Leibniz]