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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'De arcanus motus' and 'Kant and the Critique of Pure Reason'

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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / c. Eighteenth century philosophy

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Hamann, Herder and Jacobi were key opponents of the Enlightenment [Gardner]

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Kant halted rationalism, and forced empiricists to worry about foundations [Gardner]

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems

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Only Kant and Hegel have united nature, morals, politics, aesthetics and religion [Gardner]

2. Reason / E. Argument / 2. Transcendental Argument

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Transcendental proofs derive necessities from possibilities (e.g. possibility of experiencing objects) [Gardner]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 2. Geometry

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Modern geoemtry is either 'pure' (and formal), or 'applied' (and a posteriori) [Gardner]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / c. Monads

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Leibnizian monads qualify as Kantian noumena [Gardner]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 1. Powers

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Because of the definitions of cause, effect and power, cause and effect have the same power [Leibniz]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 2. Nature of Necessity

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Every necessary proposition is demonstrable to someone who understands [Leibniz]

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 / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

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