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All the ideas for 'Exigency to Exist in Essences', 'The Rationalists' and 'Does Moral Subjectivism Rest on a Mistake?'

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9 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]

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

4304	Descartes says there are two substance, Spinoza one, and Leibniz infinitely many [Cottingham]

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

19402

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

12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism

4303	The notion of substance lies at the heart of rationalist metaphysics [Cottingham]

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

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Non-cognitivists give the conditions of use of moral sentences as facts about the speaker [Foot]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / h. Expressivism

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The mistake is to think good grounds aren't enough for moral judgement, which also needs feelings [Foot]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / b. Fact and value

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Moral arguments are grounded in human facts [Foot]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

4306	For rationalists, it is necessary that effects be deducible from their causes [Cottingham]