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All the ideas for 'The Problem of Empty Names', 'Against Barbaric physics' and 'Whitehead: process and cosmology'

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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

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Metaphysics attempts to give an account of everything, in terms of categories and principles [Simons]

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / e. Empty names

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Unreflectively, we all assume there are nonexistents, and we can refer to them [Reimer]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / c. Forces

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Some people return to scholastic mysterious qualities, disguising them as 'forces' [Leibniz]