Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Through the Looking Glass', 'The Human Body is a sort of Machine' and 'A Specimen of Discoveries'

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5 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 4. Aims of Reason

5035	The two basics of reasoning are contradiction and sufficient reason [Leibniz]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing

21982

I only wish I had such eyes as to see Nobody! It's as much as I can do to see real people. [Carroll,L]

17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 5. Parallelism

5038	Assume that mind and body follow their own laws, but God has harmonised them [Leibniz]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / b. Limited purposes

19376

A machine is best defined by its final cause, which explains the roles of the parts [Leibniz]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 3. Problem of Evil / b. Human Evil

5037	God doesn't decide that Adam will sin, but that sinful Adam's existence is to be preferred [Leibniz]