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Ideas for 'On the Natural Faculties', 'The Ethics' and 'Letters to Des Bosses'

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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 2. Powers as Basic

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Things persevere through a force which derives from God [Spinoza]

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

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The essence of a thing is its effort to persevere [Spinoza]

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There is active and passive power in the substantial chain and in the essence of a composite [Leibniz]

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Primitive force is what gives a composite its reality [Leibniz]