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Ideas for Lynch,MP/Glasgow,JM, Katherine Hawley and Gottfried Leibniz
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 1. Nature
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The principle of determination in things obtains the greatest effect with the least effort [Leibniz]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / b. Limited purposes
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A machine is best defined by its final cause, which explains the roles of the parts [Leibniz]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 4. Mathematical Nature
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Minds unconsciously count vibration beats in music, and enjoy it when they coincide [Leibniz]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / b. Prime matter
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Prime matter is nothing when it is at rest [Leibniz]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / f. Ancient elements
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The true elements are atomic monads [Leibniz]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / g. Atomism
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I think the corpuscular theory, rather than forms or qualities, best explains particular phenomena [Leibniz]
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Leibniz rejected atoms, because they must be elastic, and hence have parts [Leibniz, by Garber]
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Atomism is irrational because it suggests that two atoms can be indistinguishable [Leibniz]
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Microscopes and the continuum suggest that matter is endlessly divisible [Leibniz]
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There are atoms of substance, but no atoms of bulk or extension [Leibniz]
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Things are infinitely subdivisible and contain new worlds, which atoms would make impossible [Leibniz]
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The only simple things are monads, with no parts or extension [Leibniz]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / a. Early Modern matter
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Leibniz struggled to reconcile bodies with a reality of purely soul-like entities [Jolley on Leibniz]
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Secondary matter is active and complete; primary matter is passive and incomplete [Leibniz]
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Not all of matter is animated, any more than a pond full of living fish is animated [Leibniz]
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Every particle of matter contains organic bodies [Leibniz]
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Bare or primary matter is passive; it is clothed or secondary matter which contains action [Leibniz]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / c. Matter as extension
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Even if extension is impenetrable, this still offers no explanation for motion and its laws [Leibniz]
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Leibniz eventually said resistance, rather than extension, was the essence of body [Leibniz, by Pasnau]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 2. Types of cause
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In the schools the Four Causes are just lumped together in a very obscure way [Leibniz]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 3. Final causes
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Power rules in efficient causes, but wisdom rules in connecting them to final causes [Leibniz]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / c. Counterfactual causation
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Causation is nothing more than the counterfactuals it grounds? [Hawley]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity
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The connection in events enables us to successfully predict the future, so there must be a constant cause [Leibniz]
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Causes can be inferred from perfect knowledge of their effects [Leibniz]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 1. Laws of Nature
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Each possible world contains its own laws, reflected in the possible individuals of that world [Leibniz]
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God's laws would be meaningless without internal powers for following them [Leibniz]
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An entelechy is a law of the series of its event within some entity [Leibniz]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / a. Scientific essentialism
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If there is some trace of God in things, that would explain their natural force [Leibniz]
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Qualities should be predictable from the nature of the subject [Leibniz]
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Gold has a real essence, unknown to us, which produces its properties [Leibniz]
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Part of our idea of gold is its real essence, which is not known to us in detail [Leibniz]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws
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Each of the infinite possible worlds has its own laws, and the individuals contain those laws [Leibniz]
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Leibniz wanted to explain motion and its laws by the nature of body [Leibniz, by Garber]
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The law within something fixes its persistence, and accords with general laws of nature [Leibniz]
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In addition to laws, God must also create appropriate natures for things [Leibniz]
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Gravity is within matter because of its structure, and it can be explained. [Leibniz]
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The only permanence in things, constituting their substance, is a law of continuity [Leibniz]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 10. Closure of Physics
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Leibniz had an unusual commitment to the causal completeness of physics [Leibniz, by Papineau]
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