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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Metaphysical Foundations of Mathematics' and 'The Actual and the Possible'

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4 ideas

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 5. Modality from Actuality

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A state of affairs is only possible if there has been an actual substance to initiate it [Pruss]

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]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / g. Time's arrow

22908

When one element contains the grounds of the other, the first one is prior in time [Leibniz]

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

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