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All the ideas for 'The Value of Science', 'Specimen inventorum' and 'Notice of Fine's 'Limits of Abstraction''

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14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / k. Explanations by essence
12729 The cause of a change is not the real influence, but whatever gives a reason for the change [Leibniz]
18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 7. Abstracta by Equivalence
9141 Abstraction theories build mathematics out of second-order equivalence principles [Cook/Ebert]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature
15877 The aim of science is just to create a comprehensive, elegant language to describe brute facts [Poincaré, by Harré]