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All the ideas for 'Ambitious, yet modest, Metaphysics', 'On Metaphysics (frags)' and 'On Divination ('De divinatione')'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 5. Metaphysics beyond Science

16415

Esoteric metaphysics aims to be top science, investigating ultimate reality [Hofweber]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics

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Science has discovered properties of things, so there are properties - so who needs metaphysics? [Hofweber]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 1. Quantification

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The quantifier in logic is not like the ordinary English one (which has empty names, non-denoting terms etc) [Hofweber]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism

6029	Whoever knows future causes knows everything that will be [Cicero]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / c. Purpose denied

5990	Theophrastus doubted whether nature could be explained teleologically [Theophrastus, by Gottschalk]