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'Causal Explanation', 'New Essays on Human Understanding' and 'Letters to Burcher De Volder'
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8. Modes of Existence / A. Relations / 1. Nature of Relations
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A man's distant wife dying is a real change in him [Leibniz]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 1. Powers
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We discern active power from our minds, so mind must be involved in all active powers [Leibniz]
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I use the word 'entelechy' for a power, to include endeavour, as well as mere aptitude [Leibniz]
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A complete monad is a substance with primitive active and passive power [Leibniz]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic
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All occurrence in the depth of a substance is spontaneous 'action' [Leibniz]
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Substances are primary powers; their ways of being are the derivative powers [Leibniz]
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Derivate forces are in phenomena, but primitive forces are in the internal strivings of substances [Leibniz]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived
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A disposition needs a causal basis, a property in a certain causal role. Could the disposition be the property? [Lewis]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence
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Material or immaterial substances cannot be conceived without their essential activity [Leibniz]
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Thought terminates in force, rather than extension [Leibniz]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 5. Powers and Properties
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The active powers which are not essential to the substance are the 'real qualities' [Leibniz]
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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 6. Dispositions / b. Dispositions and powers
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There cannot be power without action; the power is a disposition to act [Leibniz]
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