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All the ideas for 'The Value of Science', 'Letters to Samuel Masson' and 'Of Liberty and Necessity'

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / d. Actual infinite

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I don't admit infinite numbers, and consider infinitesimals to be useful fictions [Leibniz]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 5. Contingency

6215	'Contingent' means that the cause is unperceived, not that there is no cause [Hobbes]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature

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The aim of science is just to create a comprehensive, elegant language to describe brute facts [Poincaré, by Harré]