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All the ideas for 'Exigency to Exist in Essences', 'Alcibiades' and 'Philosophy and Scientific Image of Man'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / c. Philosophy as generalisation

21829

Philosophy aims to understand how things (broadly understood) hang together (broadly understood) [Sellars]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence

19400

Possibles demand existence, so as many of them as possible must actually exist [Leibniz]

19401

God's sufficient reason for choosing reality is in the fitness or perfection of possibilities [Leibniz]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 2. Reduction

6550	Reduction requires that an object's properties consist of its constituents' properties and relations [Sellars]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / a. Possible worlds

19402

The actual universe is the richest composite of what is possible [Leibniz]

17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 1. Dualism

3519	Man uses his body, so must be separate from it [Anon (Plat), by Maslin]