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All the ideas for 'The Definition of Good', 'The Rationalists' and 'Practical Necessity'

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5 ideas

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance

4304	Descartes says there are two substance, Spinoza one, and Leibniz infinitely many [Cottingham]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 10. Impossibility

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Necessity implies possibility, but in experience it matters which comes first [Williams,B]

12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism

4303	The notion of substance lies at the heart of rationalist metaphysics [Cottingham]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / c. Particularism

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The ground for an attitude is not a thing's 'goodness', but its concrete characteristics [Ewing]

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

4306	For rationalists, it is necessary that effects be deducible from their causes [Cottingham]