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Ideas for Gilles Deleuze, David M. Armstrong and Gottfried Leibniz

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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 1. Nature
19429 The principle of determination in things obtains the greatest effect with the least effort [Leibniz]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / b. Limited purposes
19376 A machine is best defined by its final cause, which explains the roles of the parts [Leibniz]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 4. Mathematical Nature
19356 Minds unconsciously count vibration beats in music, and enjoy it when they coincide [Leibniz]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / b. Prime matter
19399 Prime matter is nothing when it is at rest [Leibniz]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / e. The One
17692 We can't deduce the phenomena from the One [Armstrong]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / f. Ancient elements
12707 The true elements are atomic monads [Leibniz]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / g. Atomism
15955 I think the corpuscular theory, rather than forms or qualities, best explains particular phenomena [Leibniz]
12728 Leibniz rejected atoms, because they must be elastic, and hence have parts [Leibniz, by Garber]
2102 Atomism is irrational because it suggests that two atoms can be indistinguishable [Leibniz]
19374 Microscopes and the continuum suggest that matter is endlessly divisible [Leibniz]
12759 There are atoms of substance, but no atoms of bulk or extension [Leibniz]
2105 Things are infinitely subdivisible and contain new worlds, which atoms would make impossible [Leibniz]
2106 The only simple things are monads, with no parts or extension [Leibniz]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / a. Early Modern matter
7560 Leibniz struggled to reconcile bodies with a reality of purely soul-like entities [Jolley on Leibniz]
12718 Secondary matter is active and complete; primary matter is passive and incomplete [Leibniz]
19416 Not all of matter is animated, any more than a pond full of living fish is animated [Leibniz]
19422 Every particle of matter contains organic bodies [Leibniz]
19436 Bare or primary matter is passive; it is clothed or secondary matter which contains action [Leibniz]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / c. Matter as extension
13185 Even if extension is impenetrable, this still offers no explanation for motion and its laws [Leibniz]
16683 Leibniz eventually said resistance, rather than extension, was the essence of body [Leibniz, by Pasnau]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 2. Types of cause
17689 Absences might be effects, but surely not causes? [Armstrong]
19425 In the schools the Four Causes are just lumped together in a very obscure way [Leibniz]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 3. Final causes
5059 Power rules in efficient causes, but wisdom rules in connecting them to final causes [Leibniz]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation
18380 Negative causations supervene on positive causations plus their laws? [Armstrong]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity
2117 The connection in events enables us to successfully predict the future, so there must be a constant cause [Leibniz]
12702 Causes can be inferred from perfect knowledge of their effects [Leibniz]
4798 In recent writings, Armstrong makes a direct identification of necessitation with causation [Armstrong, by Psillos]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 1. Laws of Nature
17682 A universe couldn't consist of mere laws [Armstrong]
17662 Science depends on laws of nature to study unobserved times and spaces [Armstrong]
12907 Each possible world contains its own laws, reflected in the possible individuals of that world [Leibniz]
13194 God's laws would be meaningless without internal powers for following them [Leibniz]
13177 An entelechy is a law of the series of its event within some entity [Leibniz]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 2. Types of Laws
17690 Oaken conditional laws, Iron universal laws, and Steel necessary laws [Armstrong, by PG]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 3. Laws and Generalities
17670 Newton's First Law refers to bodies not acted upon by a force, but there may be no such body [Armstrong]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / a. Regularity theory
8582 Regularities are lawful if a second-order universal unites two first-order universals [Armstrong, by Lewis]
17671 A naive regularity view says if it never occurs then it is impossible [Armstrong]
8541 Regularities theories are poor on causal connections, counterfactuals and probability [Armstrong]
8540 The introduction of sparse properties avoids the regularity theory's problem with 'grue' [Armstrong]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 5. Laws from Universals
17681 The laws of nature link properties with properties [Armstrong]
16246 Rather than take necessitation between universals as primitive, just make laws primitive [Maudlin on Armstrong]
9480 Armstrong has an unclear notion of contingent necessitation, which can't necessitate anything [Bird on Armstrong]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / a. Scientific essentialism
11854 If there is some trace of God in things, that would explain their natural force [Leibniz]
11856 Qualities should be predictable from the nature of the subject [Leibniz]
12994 Gold has a real essence, unknown to us, which produces its properties [Leibniz]
12808 Part of our idea of gold is its real essence, which is not known to us in detail [Leibniz]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws
19403 Each of the infinite possible worlds has its own laws, and the individuals contain those laws [Leibniz]
12725 Leibniz wanted to explain motion and its laws by the nature of body [Leibniz, by Garber]
16507 The law within something fixes its persistence, and accords with general laws of nature [Leibniz]
11945 In addition to laws, God must also create appropriate natures for things [Leibniz]
13198 Gravity is within matter because of its structure, and it can be explained. [Leibniz]
13093 The only permanence in things, constituting their substance, is a law of continuity [Leibniz]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / e. Anti scientific essentialism
5492 How can essences generate the right powers to vary with distance between objects? [Armstrong]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 10. Closure of Physics
7859 Leibniz had an unusual commitment to the causal completeness of physics [Leibniz, by Papineau]