Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Nicolas Malebranche, John Wycliff and Thomas M. Scanlon

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6 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes

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Everything that exists is either a being, or some mode of a being [Malebranche]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 6. Successive Things

16700

In order to speak about time and successive entities, the 'present' must be enlarged [Wycliff]

16701

To be successive a thing needs parts, which must therefore be lodged outside that instant [Wycliff]

23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 9. Contractualism

20992

Right and wrong concerns what other people cannot reasonably reject [Scanlon]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

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In a true cause we see a necessary connection [Malebranche]

2594	A true cause must involve a necessary connection between cause and effect [Malebranche]