Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Leibniz: Guide for the Perplexed', 'Spinoza's Ethics' and 'Conditionals'

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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]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / d. Substance defined

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Substance needs independence, unity, and stability (for individuation); also it is a subject, for predicates [Perkins]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / c. Truth-function conditionals

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There are some assertable conditionals one would reject if one learned the antecedent [Jackson, by Edgington]

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]