Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Michael Tooley, Gottfried Leibniz and G. Aldo Antonelli
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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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The only simple things are monads, with no parts or extension [Leibniz]
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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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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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Leibniz eventually said resistance, rather than extension, was the essence of body [Leibniz, by Pasnau]
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Even if extension is impenetrable, this still offers no explanation for motion and its laws [Leibniz]
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