Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The New Organon' and 'On Freedom'

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9 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / a. Nominalism

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Only individual bodies exist [Bacon]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / c. Form as causal

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There are only individual bodies containing law-based powers, and the Forms are these laws [Bacon]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 5. Contingency

5040	Necessary truths can be analysed into original truths; contingent truths are infinitely analysable [Leibniz]

10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 2. A Priori Contingent

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Only God sees contingent truths a priori [Leibniz]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / e. Possible Objects

5039	If non-existents are possible, their existence would replace what now exists, which cannot therefore be necessary [Leibniz]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 2. Aim of Science

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Science must clear away the idols of the mind if they are ever going to find the truth [Bacon]

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / b. Education principles

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Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / d. Time as measure

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Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 3. Divine Perfections

5041	God does everything in a perfect way, and never acts contrary to reason [Leibniz]