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All the ideas for 'Natural Kinds and Biological Realism', 'On the Essence of Human Freedom' and 'Of Organum or Ars Magna of Thinking'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 1. Nature of Analysis

5021	An idea is analysed perfectly when it is shown a priori that it is possible [Leibniz]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / d. Rational foundations

5020	Our thoughts are either dependent, or self-evident. All thoughts seem to end in the self-evident [Leibniz]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / g. Will to power

20956

Ultimately, all being is willing. The nature of primal being is the same as the nature of willing [Schelling]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness

5019	Supreme human happiness is the greatest possible increase of his perfection [Leibniz]

26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 1. Natural Kinds

17371

Some kinds are very explanatory, but others less so, and some not at all [Devitt]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 5. Species

17372

The higher categories are not natural kinds, so the Linnaean hierarchy should be given up [Devitt]

17373

Species pluralism says there are several good accounts of what a species is [Devitt]