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All the ideas for 'Changes in Events and Changes in Things', 'Conceptions of Consequence' and 'Exigency to Exist in Essences'

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6 ideas

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

19400

Possibles demand existence, so as many of them as possible must actually exist [Leibniz]

19401

God's sufficient reason for choosing reality is in the fitness or perfection of possibilities [Leibniz]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / b. Types of fact

15201

That Queen Anne is dead is a 'general fact', not a fact about Queen Anne [Prior,AN]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / a. Possible worlds

19402

The actual universe is the richest composite of what is possible [Leibniz]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

18810

Aristotle's proofs give understanding, so it can't be otherwise, so consequence is necessary [Smiley, by Rumfitt]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 2. Passage of Time / e. Tensed (A) series

22899

'Thank goodness that's over' is not like 'thank goodness that happened on Friday' [Prior,AN]