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All the ideas for 'The Common-Sense View of Reality', 'Paradoxes of the Infinite' and 'Letters to Thomasius'

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10 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 2. Possibility of Metaphysics

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Metaphysics is hopeless with its present epistemology; common-sense realism is needed [Colvin]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 1. Set Theory

9987	An aggregate in which order does not matter I call a 'set' [Bolzano]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / a. The Infinite

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A truly infinite quantity does not need to be a variable [Bolzano]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism

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We can only distinguish self from non-self if there is an inflexible external reality [Colvin]

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Common-sense realism rests on our interests and practical life [Colvin]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism

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If objects are doubted because their appearances change, that presupposes one object [Colvin]

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Arguments that objects are unknowable or non-existent assume the knower's existence [Colvin]

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The idea that everything is relations is contradictory; relations are part of the concept of things [Colvin]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects

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The essence of a circle is the equality of its radii [Leibniz]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

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Bodies are recreated in motion, and don't exist in intervening instants [Leibniz]