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Ideas for 'Material Beings', 'Summa' and 'On the Ultimate Origination of Things'

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence

7696	Leibniz first asked 'why is there something rather than nothing?' [Leibniz, by Jacquette]

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There must be a straining towards existence in the essence of all possible things [Leibniz]

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Because something does exist, there must be a drive in possible things towards existence [Leibniz]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 8. Stuff / a. Pure stuff

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I reject talk of 'stuff', and treat it in terms of particles [Inwagen]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / d. Vagueness as linguistic

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Singular terms can be vague, because they can contain predicates, which can be vague [Inwagen]