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All the ideas for 'A Résumé of Metaphysics', 'On Multiplying Entities' and 'Moral Dilemmas Revisited'

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9 ideas

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 6. Ockham's Razor

8208	In arithmetic, ratios, negatives, irrationals and imaginaries were created in order to generalise [Quine]

8207	The quest for simplicity drove scientists to posit new entities, such as molecules in gases [Quine]

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events

8205	Explaining events just by bodies can't explain two events identical in space-time [Quine]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity

8206	Necessity could be just generalisation over classes, or (maybe) quantifying over possibilia [Quine]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 5. Action Dilemmas / a. Dilemmas

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There is no restitution after a dilemma, if it only involved the agent, or just needed an explanation [Foot, by PG]

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I can't understand how someone can be necessarily wrong whatever he does [Foot]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 3. Pleasure / a. Nature of pleasure

5049	Intelligent pleasure is the perception of beauty, order and perfection [Leibniz]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 3. Divine Perfections

5048	Perfection is simply quantity of reality [Leibniz]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 3. Problem of Evil / b. Human Evil

5050	Evil serves a greater good, and pain is necessary for higher pleasure [Leibniz]