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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Mathematical Physics' and 'On the Reality of Accidents'

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4 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 4. Concept Nominalism

19382

Abstracta are abbreviated ways of talking; there are just substances, and truths about them [Leibniz]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 3. Abstracta by Ignoring

9567	Maths deals with quantities of physical significance, ignoring irrelevant features [Geroch]

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]