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All the ideas for 'Classical Cosmology (frags)', 'De modo distinguendi phaenomena' and 'Notice of Fine's 'Limits of Abstraction''

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

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If experience is just a dream, it is still real enough if critical reason is never deceived [Leibniz]

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The strongest criterion that phenomena show reality is success in prediction [Leibniz]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / e. Primary/secondary critique

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Light, heat and colour are apparent qualities, and so are motion, figure and extension [Leibniz]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 7. Abstracta by Equivalence

9141	Abstraction theories build mathematics out of second-order equivalence principles [Cook/Ebert]

27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology

5994	Is the cosmos open or closed, mechanical or teleological, alive or inanimate, and created or eternal? [Robinson,TM, by PG]