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All the ideas for 'Letters to Remond de Montmort', 'Psychophysical and theoretical identifications' and 'Persons, Character and Morality'

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10 ideas

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 2. Necessity as Primitive
12732 Some necessary truths are brute, and others derive from final causes [Leibniz]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / c. Parts of consciousness
19438 Our large perceptions and appetites are made up tiny unconscious fragments [Leibniz]
18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / c. Role of emotions
19415 Passions reside in confused perceptions [Leibniz]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character
23279 It is important that a person can change their character, and not just be successive 'selves' [Williams,B]
23280 Kantians have an poor account of individuals, and insist on impartiality, because they ignore character [Williams,B]
23. Ethics / E. Utilitarianism / 1. Utilitarianism
23278 For utilitarians states of affairs are what have value, not matter who produced them [Williams,B]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / b. Best system theory
9423 If simplicity and strength are criteria for laws of nature, that introduces a subjective element [Mumford on Lewis]
9424 A number of systematizations might tie as the best and most coherent system [Mumford on Lewis]
9409 Laws are the best axiomatization of the total history of world events or facts [Lewis, by Mumford]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 2. Divine Nature
19439 God produces possibilities, and thus ideas [Leibniz]