Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Friedrich Schlegel, Gottfried Leibniz and Danielle Macbeth

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8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations
10419 If relations can be reduced to, or supervene on, monadic properties of relata, they are not real [Leibniz, by Swoyer]
13078 Relations aren't in any monad, so they are distributed, so they are not real [Leibniz]
19383 A man's distant wife dying is a real change in him [Leibniz]
21346 The ratio between two lines can't be a feature of one, and cannot be in both [Leibniz]
8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 1. Powers
12733 Because of the definitions of cause, effect and power, cause and effect have the same power [Leibniz]
12735 Everything has a fixed power, as required by God, and by the possibility of reasoning [Leibniz]
12711 The immediate cause of movements is more real [than geometry] [Leibniz]
12959 We discern active power from our minds, so mind must be involved in all active powers [Leibniz]
12967 I use the word 'entelechy' for a power, to include endeavour, as well as mere aptitude [Leibniz]
13179 A complete monad is a substance with primitive active and passive power [Leibniz]
8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic
12710 As well as extension, bodies contain powers [Leibniz]
13079 A substance contains the laws of its operations, and its actions come from its own depth [Leibniz]
12708 The soul is not a substance but a substantial form, the first active faculty [Leibniz]
12723 The most primitive thing in substances is force, which leads to their actions and dispositions [Leibniz]
12965 All occurrence in the depth of a substance is spontaneous 'action' [Leibniz]
12999 Substances are primary powers; their ways of being are the derivative powers [Leibniz]
12749 Derivate forces are in phenomena, but primitive forces are in the internal strivings of substances [Leibniz]
8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence
13095 Essence is primitive force, or a law of change [Leibniz]
12714 The substantial form is the principle of action or the primitive force of acting [Leibniz]
12713 Forms have sensation and appetite, the latter being the ability to act on other bodies [Leibniz, by Garber]
13087 The essence of a thing is its real possibilities [Leibniz, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
13169 I call Aristotle's entelechies 'primitive forces', which originate activity [Leibniz]
13168 My formal unifying atoms are substantial forms, which are forces like appetites [Leibniz]
5056 Material or immaterial substances cannot be conceived without their essential activity [Leibniz]
12722 Thought terminates in force, rather than extension [Leibniz]
12778 There is active and passive power in the substantial chain and in the essence of a composite [Leibniz]
12783 Primitive force is what gives a composite its reality [Leibniz]
8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 5. Powers and Properties
12969 The active powers which are not essential to the substance are the 'real qualities' [Leibniz]
8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / b. Dispositions and powers
12941 There cannot be power without action; the power is a disposition to act [Leibniz]
8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 4. Concept Nominalism
19382 Abstracta are abbreviated ways of talking; there are just substances, and truths about them [Leibniz]