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All the ideas for 'Exigency to Exist in Essences', 'Parthood and Identity across Time' and 'The Artworld'

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5 ideas

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

19400

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]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 5. Temporal Parts

13267

Temporal parts is a crazy doctrine, because it entails constantly creating stuff ex nihilo [Thomson, by Koslicki]

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

19402

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

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 6. Art as Institution

20441

An ordinary object can be a work of art, but only if some theory of art supports it [Danto]