In Book I of his traditionally-titled Against the Logicians (Book VII of Adversus Mathematicos), Sextus Empiricus presents a critique of how past philosophers have …
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In his third letter of correspondence with Samuel Clarke, Leibniz outlines his position on the nature of space. Contrary to …
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In Book I of On the Nature of Things[1], Lucretius provides arguments for the existence of two main things that exist: …
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According to Leibniz, the actual world is the best of all possible worlds. He outlines a simple argument for this …
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