Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Exigency to Exist in Essences', 'Three theses about dispositions' and 'Farewell to Reality: fairytale physics'

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7 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]

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

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 / B. Behaviourism / 2. Potential Behaviour

7435	Dispositions are second-order properties, the property of having some property [Jackson/Pargetter/Prior, by Armstrong]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 2. Electrodynamics / b. Fields

21731

Fields can be 'scalar', or 'vector', or 'tensor', or 'spinor' [Baggott]

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A 'field' is a property with a magnitude, distributed across all of space and time [Baggott]

27. Natural Reality / B. Modern Physics / 4. Standard Model / b. Standard model

21732

The current standard model requires 61 particles [Baggott]