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All the ideas for 'General Draft', 'On Sufficient Reason' and 'Episteme and Logos in later Plato'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / a. Philosophy as worldly

22026

Philosophy is homesickness - the urge to be at home everywhere [Novalis]

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 2. Logos

17950

The logos enables us to track one particular among a network of objects [Nehamas]

17951

A logos may be short, but it contains reference to the whole domain of the object [Nehamas]

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 1. Laws of Thought

19404

Necessities rest on contradiction, and contingencies on sufficient reason [Leibniz]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 6. Idealisation

19591

Desire for perfection is an illness, if it turns against what is imperfect [Novalis]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws

19403

Each of the infinite possible worlds has its own laws, and the individuals contain those laws [Leibniz]