Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Reason, Emotions and Good Life', 'Dialogue on human freedom and origin of evil' and 'talk'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

6 ideas

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 2. Geometry

13163

Circles must be bounded, so cannot be infinite [Leibniz]

14. Science / C. Induction / 5. Paradoxes of Induction / b. Raven paradox

7006	Observing irrelevant items supports both 'all x are y' and 'all x are non-y', revealing its absurdity [Schofield,J]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / b. Fate

13162

Sloth's Syllogism: either it can't happen, or it is inevitable without my effort [Leibniz]

20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / a. Practical reason

4316	Either all action is rational, or reason dominates, or reason is only concerned with means [Cottingham]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 3. Problem of Evil / a. Problem of Evil

19339

Evil is a negation of good, which arises from non-being [Leibniz]

13164

God only made sin possible because a much greater good can be derived from it [Leibniz]