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All the ideas for 'works', 'Summa Contra Gentiles' and 'Letters to Remond de Montmort'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 2. Wise People

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Wise people should contemplate and discuss the truth, and fight against falsehood [Aquinas]

5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 2. Domain of Quantification

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De Morgan introduced a 'universe of discourse', to replace Boole's universe of 'all things' [De Morgan, by Walicki]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 2. Necessity as Primitive

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Some necessary truths are brute, and others derive from final causes [Leibniz]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / c. Parts of consciousness

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Our large perceptions and appetites are made up tiny unconscious fragments [Leibniz]

17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 4. Occasionalism

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Without God's influence every operation would stop, so God causes everything [Aquinas]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / c. Role of emotions

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Passions reside in confused perceptions [Leibniz]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / f. Eternalism

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Eternity coexists with passing time, as the centre of a circle coexists with its circumference [Aquinas]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 2. Divine Nature

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God produces possibilities, and thus ideas [Leibniz]