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All the ideas for 'Letters to Edward Stillingfleet', 'Semantics for Natural Languages' and 'Leibniz:Body,Substance,Monad'

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6 ideas

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / c. Monads

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Epicurean atomists say body is sensible, to distinguish it from space. [Garber]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences

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Every individual thing which exists has an essence, which is its internal constitution [Locke]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty

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If it is knowledge, it is certain; if it isn't certain, it isn't knowledge [Locke]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 4. Meaning as Truth-Conditions

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Davidson rejected ordinary meaning, and just used truth and reference instead [Davidson, by Soames]

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Davidson aimed to show that language is structured by first-order logic [Davidson, by Smart]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / g. Atomism

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Epicurean atoms are distinguished by their extreme hardness [Garber]