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All the ideas for 'Letters to Remond de Montmort', 'Understanding' and 'Aristotelian commentaries'

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9 ideas

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / a. Intrinsic unification

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Unity by aggregation, order, inherence, composition, and simplicity [Conimbricense, by Pasnau]

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 2. Necessity as Primitive

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Some necessary truths are brute, and others derive from final causes [Leibniz]

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

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'Grasping' a structure seems to be modal, because we must anticipate its behaviour [Grimm]

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Unlike knowledge, you can achieve understanding through luck [Grimm]

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You may have 'weak' understanding, if by luck you can answer a set of 'why questions' [Grimm]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / b. Primary/secondary

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Secondary qualities come from temperaments and proportions of primary qualities [Conimbricense]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / c. Parts of consciousness

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Our large perceptions and appetites are made up tiny unconscious fragments [Leibniz]

18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / c. Role of emotions

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Passions reside in confused perceptions [Leibniz]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 2. Divine Nature

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God produces possibilities, and thus ideas [Leibniz]