Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Subjectivist's Guide to Objective Chance', 'De aequopollentia causae et effectus' and 'Letters to Wolff'

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3 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 1. Powers
Everything has a fixed power, as required by God, and by the possibility of reasoning [Leibniz]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties
The properties of a thing flow from its essence [Leibniz]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / b. Best system theory
Lewis later proposed the axioms at the intersection of the best theories (which may be few) [Mumford on Lewis]