Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Subjectivist's Guide to Objective Chance', 'Letters to Fardella' and 'Spinoza's Ethics'

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4 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 5. Later European Thought

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Only in the 1780s did it become acceptable to read Spinoza [Lord]

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

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The soul is not a substance but a substantial form, the first active faculty [Leibniz]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 10. Conatus/Striving

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Hobbes and Spinoza use 'conatus' to denote all endeavour for advantage in nature [Lord]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / b. Best system theory

9425	Lewis later proposed the axioms at the intersection of the best theories (which may be few) [Mumford on Lewis]