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All the ideas for 'Rechnungsmethoden (dissertation)', 'Dispositional Essentialism and the Laws of Nature' and 'Practical Necessity'

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / c. Priority of numbers

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Quantity is inconceivable without the idea of addition [Frege]

6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 2. Intuition of Mathematics

9831	Geometry appeals to intuition as the source of its axioms [Frege]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 10. Impossibility

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Necessity implies possibility, but in experience it matters which comes first [Williams,B]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws

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Laws are relations of kinds, quantities and qualities, supervening on the essences of a domain [Vetter]