Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Jacques Lenfant, Jennifer Hornsby and Margaret Cavendish

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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence

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The question is whether force is self-sufficient in bodies, and essential, or dependent on something [Lenfant]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind

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The brain, and all the mental events within it, consists entirely of sensitive and rational matter [Cavendish]

20. Action / A. Definition of Action / 5. Action as Trying

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Bodily movements are not actions, which are really the tryings within bodily movement [Hornsby, by Stout,R]