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Ideas for 'Locke on Human Understanding', 'Leviathan' and 'The Need for Roots'

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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 1. Grounding / a. Nature of grounding
23855 Creation produced a network or web of determinations [Weil]
     Full Idea: What is sovereign in this world is determinateness, limit. Eternal Wisdom imprisons this universe in a network, a web of determinations.
     From: Simone Weil (The Need for Roots [1943], III 'Growth')
     A reaction: Love this, because I take 'determination' to be the defining relationship in ontology. It covers both physical causation and abstract necessities.
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 6. Physicalism
7559 Every part of the universe is body, and non-body is not part of it [Hobbes]
     Full Idea: The world is corporeal, that is to say, body...and every part of the universe is body, and that which is not body is no part of the universe.
     From: Thomas Hobbes (Leviathan [1651], IV.46)
     A reaction: [Hobbes concedes existence to visible spirits, but not invisible ones]. This is the kind of remark which got Hobbes hated. It is also the sort of thing that makes him the best candidate for the 'first modern man'.