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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 4. Mathematical Empiricism / b. Indispensability of mathematics

8732	It is spooky the way mathematics anticipates physics [Weinberg]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

19378

Early modern possibility is what occurs sometime; for Leibniz, it is what is not contradictory [Arthur,R]

17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 4. Occasionalism

19380

Occasionalism contradicts the Eucharist, which needs genuine changes of substance [Arthur,R]

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]