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All the ideas for 'New System and Explanation of New System', 'Intending' and 'Quaestiones de anima'

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7 ideas

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / c. Monads
5044 Reality must be made of basic unities, which will be animated, substantial points [Leibniz]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / d. Form as unifier
16766 One thing needs a single thing to unite it; if there were two forms, something must unite them [Aquinas]
15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 5. Unity of Mind
5045 No machine or mere organised matter could have a unified self [Leibniz]
17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 5. Parallelism
5046 The soul does know bodies, although they do not influence one another [Leibniz]
20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / a. Nature of intentions
20076 An intending is a judgement that the action is desirable [Davidson]
20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / c. Reducing intentions
20024 Davidson gave up reductive accounts of intention, and said it was a primitive [Davidson, by Wilson/Schpall]
27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 2. Life
5043 To regard animals as mere machines may be possible, but seems improbable [Leibniz]