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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge' and 'Letters to Thomas Burnett'

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6 ideas

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / a. Substance

13197

The notion of substance is one of the keys to true philosophy [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]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws

13198

Gravity is within matter because of its structure, and it can be explained. [Leibniz]

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

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