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All the ideas for 'Saundaranandakavya', 'Probabilities of Conditionals' and 'Reflections on Knowledge, Truth and Ideas'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 2. Invocation to Philosophy

7910	Pursue truth with the urgency of someone whose clothes are on fire [Ashvaghosha]

2. Reason / D. Definition / 1. Definitions

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'Nominal' definitions just list distinguishing characteristics [Leibniz]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / a. Conditionals

14283

A conditional probability does not measure the probability of the truth of any proposition [Lewis, by Edgington]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 1. Knowledge

19424

Knowledge needs clarity, distinctness, and adequacy, and it should be intuitive [Leibniz]

18. Thought / C. Content / 2. Ideas

19427

True ideas represent what is possible; false ideas represent contradictions [Leibniz]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 2. Types of cause

19425

In the schools the Four Causes are just lumped together in a very obscure way [Leibniz]

29. Religion / C. Spiritual Disciplines / 3. Buddhism

7909	The Eightfold Path concerns morality, wisdom, and tranquillity [Ashvaghosha]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / d. Heaven

7908	At the end of a saint, he is not located in space, but just ceases to be disturbed [Ashvaghosha]