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prolix
Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing

Husserl is prolix, prolific, and infamously difficult to read

on Edmund Husserl, whose works Kurt Godel spent much time studying

—p.55 Metaphysics in the Royal Society 1715-2010 (38) by Neal Stephenson
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teleological

It seems to inject a teleological aspect that is not present in the older formulation

on the "action principle" evolution of Newton's laws

—p.53 Metaphysics in the Royal Society 1715-2010 (38) by Neal Stephenson
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mathematical platonism

primeness and all the other subject matter of mathematics have a reality independent of the human mind. This assumption goes under various names, one of which is Mathematical Platonism

—p.47 Metaphysics in the Royal Society 1715-2010 (38) by Neal Stephenson
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monad

Leibniz calls these mind-atoms by the name of monads.

—p.44 Metaphysics in the Royal Society 1715-2010 (38) by Neal Stephenson
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Baruch Spinoza

Bertrand Russell called Leibniz's system "profound, coherent, largely Spinozistic, and amazingly logical."

—p.42 Metaphysics in the Royal Society 1715-2010 (38) by Neal Stephenson
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