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All the ideas for 'Exigency to Exist in Essences', 'Reply to Second Objections' and 'Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis'

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5 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]

19401

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]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 4. The Cogito

3622	The Cogito is not a syllogism but a self-evident intuition [Descartes]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / j. Explanations by reduction

20653

Six reduction levels: groups, lives, cells, molecules, atoms, particles [Putnam/Oppenheim, by Watson]