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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'' and 'Metaphysics: a very short introduction'

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7 ideas

4. Formal Logic / A. Syllogistic Logic / 1. Aristotelian Logic

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Aristotelian logic cannot express 'Everyone loves someone' [White,RM]

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

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Substances, unlike aggregates, can survive a change of parts [Mumford]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 3. Combinatorial possibility

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Maybe possibilities are recombinations of the existing elements of reality [Mumford]

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Combinatorial possibility has to allow all elements to be combinable, which seems unlikely [Mumford]

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Combinatorial possibility relies on what actually exists (even over time), but there could be more [Mumford]

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]