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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'The Rationalists' and 'Leibniz'

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6 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 / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

19378

Early modern possibility is what occurs sometime; for Leibniz, it is what is not contradictory [Arthur,R]

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

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

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

19380

Occasionalism contradicts the Eucharist, which needs genuine changes of substance [Arthur,R]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

468	Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.]

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]