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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Mathematical Intuition' and 'The Problem of Natural Laws'

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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / c. Against mathematical empiricism

18201

General principles can be obvious in mathematics, but bold speculations in empirical science [Parsons,C]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity

490	Everything happens by reason and necessity [Leucippus]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 3. Laws and Generalities

4800	Natural laws result from eliminative induction, where enumerative induction gives generalisations [Cohen,LJ, by Psillos]