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All the ideas for 'General Facts,Phys Necessity, and Metaph of Time', 'Letters to Queen Charlotte' and 'Replies to Critics'

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3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 3. Truthmaker Maximalism

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The truth-maker principle is that every truth has a sufficient truth-maker [Forrest]

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth

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Names, descriptions and predicates refer to things; without that, language and thought are baffling [Davidson]

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 4. Axioms for Number / a. Axioms for numbers

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We know mathematical axioms, such as subtracting equals from equals leaves equals, by a natural light [Leibniz]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / b. Essence not necessities

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A necessary feature (such as air for humans) is not therefore part of the essence [Leibniz]

10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 1. A Priori Necessary

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Intelligible truth is independent of any external things or experiences [Leibniz]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / d. Secondary qualities

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We know objects by perceptions, but their qualities don't reveal what it is we are perceiving [Leibniz]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 1. Empiricism

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There is nothing in the understanding but experiences, plus the understanding itself, and the understander [Leibniz]