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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Reflections on Knowledge, Truth and Ideas' and 'works'

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10 ideas

2. Reason / D. Definition / 1. Definitions

19426

'Nominal' definitions just list distinguishing characteristics [Leibniz]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / a. Axioms for sets

3340	Von Neumann defines each number as the set of all smaller numbers [Neumann, by Blackburn]

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 8. Critique of Set Theory

3355	Von Neumann wanted mathematical functions to replace sets [Neumann, by Benardete,JA]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / e. Ordinal numbers

22716

Von Neumann defined ordinals as the set of all smaller ordinals [Neumann, by Poundstone]

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]

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]

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]

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]