Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Leibniz: Guide for the Perplexed', 'Letter to Pythocles' and 'Natural Science (lost)'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

5 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

527	Everything exists which anyone perceives [Metrodorus of Chios]

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

19347

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

14. Science / D. Explanation / 3. Best Explanation / c. Against best explanation

21386

We should accept as explanations all the plausible ways in which something could come about [Epicurus]

27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology

14051

A cosmos is a collection of stars and an earth, with some sort of boundary, movement and shape [Epicurus]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 3. Deism

1828	God does not intervene in heavenly movements, but is beyond all action and perfectly happy [Epicurus]