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All the ideas for 'A General Principle to Explain Laws of Nature', 'Summula philosophiae naturalis' and 'An American Indian model of the Universe'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 2. Invocation to Philosophy

19395

Philosophy is sanctified, because it flows from God [Leibniz]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism

16608

Ockham was an anti-realist about the categories [William of Ockham, by Pasnau]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 4. Quantity of an Object

16599

Ockham says matter must be extended, so we don't need Quantity [William of Ockham, by Pasnau]

16681

Matter gets its quantity from condensation and rarefaction, which is just local motion [William of Ockham]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 1. Concept of Identity

19394

Inequality can be brought infinitely close to equality [Leibniz]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 5. Language Relativism

3916	Hopi consistently prefers verbs and events to nouns and things [Whorf]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 4. Paradigm

3917	Scientific thought is essentially a specialised part of Indo-European languages [Whorf]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / e. Tensed (A) series

3915	The Hopi have no concept of time as something flowing from past to future [Whorf]