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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'A General Principle to Explain Laws of Nature' and 'Counting and the Natural Numbers'

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8 ideas

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

19395

Philosophy is sanctified, because it flows from God [Leibniz]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / d. Natural numbers

17423

The essence of natural numbers must reflect all the functions they perform [Sicha]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / c. Counting procedure

17424

Counting puts an initial segment of a serial ordering 1-1 with some other entities [Sicha]

17425

To know how many, you need a numerical quantifier, as well as equinumerosity [Sicha]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / d. Non-being

18933

Not-Being obviously doesn't exist, and the five modes of Being are all impossible [Gorgias, by Diog. Laertius]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 1. Concept of Identity

19394

Inequality can be brought infinitely close to equality [Leibniz]

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

9866	Gorgias says rhetoric is the best of arts, because it enslaves without using force [Gorgias, by Plato]

5864	Destroy seriousness with laughter, and laughter with seriousness [Gorgias]