Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Friedrich Schlegel, Gottfried Leibniz and Juan Comesaa

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10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / a. Possible worlds
15883 Leibniz narrows down God's options to one, by non-contradiction, sufficient reason, indiscernibles, compossibility [Leibniz, by Harré]
18822 Each monad expresses all its compatible monads; a possible world is the resulting equivalence class [Leibniz, by Rumfitt]
7837 Leibniz proposed possible worlds, because they might be evil, where God would not create evil things [Leibniz, by Stewart,M]
19402 The actual universe is the richest composite of what is possible [Leibniz]
19434 There may be a world where dogs smell their game at a thousand leagues [Leibniz]
10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / a. Transworld identity
12904 If varieties of myself can be conceived of as distinct from me, then they are not me [Leibniz]
11981 If someone's life went differently, then that would be another individual [Leibniz]
10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / c. Counterparts
13080 Leibniz has a counterpart view of de re counterfactuals [Leibniz, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / d. Haecceitism
13085 Leibniz is some form of haecceitist [Leibniz, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / e. Possible Objects
5039 If non-existents are possible, their existence would replace what now exists, which cannot therefore be necessary [Leibniz]