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All the ideas for 'Exigency to Exist in Essences', 'Letters to Oldenburg' and 'Theological and other works'

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8 ideas

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

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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]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 1. Powers

15312

We get the idea of power by abstracting from ropes, magnets and electric shocks [Priestley]

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

19402

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

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism

4867	Whether nature is beautiful or orderly is entirely in relation to human imagination [Spinoza]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / a. Concept of matter

15311

Attraction or repulsion are not imparted to matter, but actually constitute it [Priestley]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 3. Divine Perfections

4866	God is a being with infinite attributes, each of them infinite or perfect [Spinoza]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / e. Miracles

4868	Trying to prove God's existence through miracles is proving the obscure by the more obscure [Spinoza]