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All the ideas for 'reports', 'On the Cosmos (lost)' and 'Short History of Modern Philosophy'

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12 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 2. History of Logic
5637 Nowadays logic is seen as the science of extensions, not intensions [Scruton]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / a. Intrinsic unification
472 No things would be clear to us as entity or relationships unless there existed Number and its essence [Philolaus]
10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity
3016 Even the gods cannot strive against necessity [Pittacus, by Diog. Laertius]
18. Thought / C. Content / 2. Ideas
5636 Cartesian 'ideas' confuse concepts and propositions [Scruton]
24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 3. Natural Values / c. Natural rights
5660 Allegiance is prior to the recognition of individual rights [Scruton]
25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 1. Basis of Rights
5653 A right is a power which is enforced in the name of justice [Scruton]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 4. Mathematical Nature
473 There is no falsehood in harmony and number, only in irrational things [Philolaus]
1519 Harmony must pre-exist the cosmos, to bring the dissimilar sources together [Philolaus]
1518 Everything must involve numbers, or it couldn't be thought about or known [Philolaus]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / d. The unlimited
469 Existing things, and hence the Cosmos, are a mixture of the Limited and the Unlimited [Philolaus]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 6. Laws as Numerical
476 Self-created numbers make the universe stable [Philolaus]
27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology
1787 Philolaus was the first person to say the earth moves in a circle [Philolaus, by Diog. Laertius]