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All the ideas for 'Letters to Remond de Montmort', 'Does Consciousness Exist?' and 'What Metaphors Mean'

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9 ideas

10. Modality / C. Sources of Modality / 2. Necessity as Primitive
12732 Some necessary truths are brute, and others derive from final causes [Leibniz]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / c. Parts of consciousness
19438 Our large perceptions and appetites are made up tiny unconscious fragments [Leibniz]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / e. Cause of consciousness
9286 Consciousness is not a stuff, but is explained by the relations between experiences [James]
17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 3. Eliminativism
9285 'Consciousness' is a nonentity, a mere echo of the disappearing 'soul' [James]
18. Thought / A. Modes of Thought / 3. Emotions / c. Role of emotions
19415 Passions reside in confused perceptions [Leibniz]
19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / d. Metaphor
7775 Understanding a metaphor is a creative act, with no rules [Davidson]
7777 We accept a metaphor when we see the sentence is false [Davidson]
7776 Metaphors just mean what their words literally mean [Davidson]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 2. Divine Nature
19439 God produces possibilities, and thus ideas [Leibniz]