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All the ideas for 'reports', 'Of Organum or Ars Magna of Thinking' and 'Russell's Ontological Development'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 1. Nature of Analysis

5021	An idea is analysed perfectly when it is shown a priori that it is possible [Leibniz]

2. Reason / D. Definition / 12. Paraphrase

21699

Russell offered a paraphrase of definite description, to avoid the commitment to objects [Quine]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity

3016	Even the gods cannot strive against necessity [Pittacus, by Diog. Laertius]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / d. Rational foundations

5020	Our thoughts are either dependent, or self-evident. All thoughts seem to end in the self-evident [Leibniz]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 7. Meaning Holism / a. Sentence meaning

21700

Taking sentences as the unit of meaning makes useful paraphrasing possible [Quine]

21701

Knowing a word is knowing the meanings of sentences which contain it [Quine]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness

5019	Supreme human happiness is the greatest possible increase of his perfection [Leibniz]