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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge' and 'Dialogue on Things and Words'

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6 ideas

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 5. Truth Bearers

19389

Truth is a characteristic of possible thoughts [Leibniz]

19388

True and false seem to pertain to thoughts, yet unthought propositions seem to be true or false [Leibniz]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism

8824	No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

15251

The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

5989	Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]