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All the ideas for 'On the Nature of Mathematical Reasoning', 'Paraconsistent Logic' and 'On Sufficient Reason'

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4 ideas

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 1. Laws of Thought

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Necessities rest on contradiction, and contingencies on sufficient reason [Leibniz]

4. Formal Logic / E. Nonclassical Logics / 7. Paraconsistency

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Paraconsistent reasoning can just mean responding sensibly to inconsistencies [Jago]

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

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Poincaré rejected the actual infinite, claiming definitions gave apparent infinity to finite objects [Poincaré, by Lavine]

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

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Each of the infinite possible worlds has its own laws, and the individuals contain those laws [Leibniz]