Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'reports', 'Structure and Nature' and 'On Sufficient Reason'

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5 ideas

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

19404

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

6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 7. Mathematical Structuralism / a. Structuralism

10242

I apply structuralism to concrete and abstract objects indiscriminately [Quine]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism

10243

My ontology is quarks etc., classes of such things, classes of such classes etc. [Quine]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity

3016	Even the gods cannot strive against necessity [Pittacus, by Diog. Laertius]

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]