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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Letters to Foucher' and 'Positivism and Realism'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics

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The empiricist says that metaphysics is meaningless, rather than false [Schlick]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence

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Essence is primitive force, or a law of change [Leibniz]

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / b. Education principles

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Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

2117	The connection in events enables us to successfully predict the future, so there must be a constant cause [Leibniz]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / d. Time as measure

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Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus]