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All the ideas for 'New system of communication of substances', 'Letters to De Vries' and 'Forget the 'correspondence theory of truth''

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9 ideas

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 5. Truth Bearers

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To be true a sentence must express a proposition, and not be ambiguous or vague or just expressive [Lewis]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 2. Truthmaker Relation

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Truthmakers are about existential grounding, not about truth [Lewis]

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 11. Truthmaking and Correspondence

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Truthmaker is correspondence, but without the requirement to be one-to-one [Lewis]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence

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My formal unifying atoms are substantial forms, which are forces like appetites [Leibniz]

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I call Aristotle's entelechies 'primitive forces', which originate activity [Leibniz]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Simples

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The analysis of things leads to atoms of substance, which found both composition and action [Leibniz]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance

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Substance must necessarily involve progress and change [Leibniz]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 14. Knowledge of Essences

4869	Experience does not teach us any essences of things [Spinoza]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / c. Forces

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We need the metaphysical notion of force to explain mechanics, and not just extended mass [Leibniz]