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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Human Freedom and Divine choice' and 'Reals by Abstraction'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 4. Divisions of Philosophy

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Six parts: dialectic, rhetoric, ethics, politics, physics, theology [Cleanthes, by Diog. Laertius]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / g. Real numbers

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The real numbers may be introduced by abstraction as ratios of quantities [Hale, by Hale/Wright]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / a. Essence as necessary properties

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The essence is the necessary properties, and the concept includes what is contingent [Leibniz]

17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 8. Dualism of Mind Critique

6028	Bodies interact with other bodies, and cuts cause pain, and shame causes blushing, so the soul is a body [Cleanthes, by Nemesius]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind

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The soul suffers when the body hurts, creates redness from shame, and pallor from fear [Cleanthes]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / b. Teleological Proof

5993	The ascending scale of living creatures requires a perfect being [Cleanthes, by Tieleman]