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All the ideas for 'On Sufficient Reason', 'Identity through Possible Worlds' and 'Quodlibeta'

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8 ideas

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 1. Laws of Thought

19404

Necessities rest on contradiction, and contingencies on sufficient reason [Leibniz]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes

16641

Whiteness does not exist, but by it something can exist-as-white [Aquinas]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 14. Knowledge of Essences

11966

If there are essential properties, how do you find out what they are? [Chisholm]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / a. Transworld identity

11965

Could possible Adam gradually transform into Noah, and vice versa? [Chisholm]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 2. Understanding

22170

Senses grasp external properties, but the understanding grasps the essential natures of things [Aquinas]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 3. Innate Knowledge / a. Innate knowledge

22169

Initial universal truths are present within us as potential, to be drawn out by reason [Aquinas]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 3. Representation

22168

Minds take in a likeness of things, which activates an awaiting potential [Aquinas]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws

19403

Each of the infinite possible worlds has its own laws, and the individuals contain those laws [Leibniz]