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12734 | Every necessary proposition is demonstrable to someone who understands [Leibniz] |
13828 | Necessary truths are those provable from identities by pure logic in finite steps [Leibniz, by Hacking] |
5047 | The world is physically necessary, as its contrary would imply imperfection or moral absurdity [Leibniz] |
13084 | How can things be incompatible, if all positive terms seem to be compatible? [Leibniz] |
12779 | There is a reason why not every possible thing exists [Leibniz] |
5040 | Necessary truths can be analysed into original truths; contingent truths are infinitely analysable [Leibniz] |
4307 | A reason must be given why contingent beings should exist rather than not exist [Leibniz] |
12732 | Some necessary truths are brute, and others derive from final causes [Leibniz] |
12978 | A perfect idea of an object shows that the object is possible [Leibniz] |
19432 | Intelligible truth is independent of any external things or experiences [Leibniz] |
17079 | Proofs of necessity come from the understanding, where they have their source [Leibniz] |
2112 | Truths of reason are known by analysis, and are necessary; facts are contingent, and their opposites possible [Leibniz] |
12736 | If we understand God and his choices, we have a priori knowledge of contingent truths [Leibniz, by Garber] |
13159 | Only God sees contingent truths a priori [Leibniz] |
13172 | What we cannot imagine may still exist [Leibniz] |
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] |
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] |
15377 | Definite descriptions pick out different objects in different possible worlds [Fitting] |
13080 | Leibniz has a counterpart view of de re counterfactuals [Leibniz, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne] |
13085 | Leibniz is some form of haecceitist [Leibniz, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne] |
5039 | If non-existents are possible, their existence would replace what now exists, which cannot therefore be necessary [Leibniz] |