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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Philosophy and Scientific Image of Man' and 'Letters to Thomasius'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / c. Philosophy as generalisation

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Philosophy aims to understand how things (broadly understood) hang together (broadly understood) [Sellars]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 2. Reduction

6550	Reduction requires that an object's properties consist of its constituents' properties and relations [Sellars]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects

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The essence of a circle is the equality of its radii [Leibniz]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / b. Eudaimonia

5996	Critolaus redefined Aristotle's moral aim as fulfilment instead of happiness [Critolaus, by White,SA]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

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Bodies are recreated in motion, and don't exist in intervening instants [Leibniz]