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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Letters to Oldenburg' and 'Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals'

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6. Mathematics / B. Foundations for Mathematics / 3. Axioms for Geometry

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Archimedes defined a straight line as the shortest distance between two points [Archimedes, by Leibniz]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 6. Idealisation

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We know perfection when we see what is imperfect [Murdoch]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism

4867	Whether nature is beautiful or orderly is entirely in relation to human imagination [Spinoza]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 3. Divine Perfections

4866	God is a being with infinite attributes, each of them infinite or perfect [Spinoza]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / e. Miracles

4868	Trying to prove God's existence through miracles is proving the obscure by the more obscure [Spinoza]