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Gregory
4.7k1) necessary truths
2) contingent truths (univetse)
A) infinite truths
B) finite truths.
1 is infinite because it includes mathematics. Leibniz thought the world infinite, so contingent truths are infinite in his system. Fish fry is right that you can't ad hoc apply Godel to the world though
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