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All the ideas for 'The Rationalists', 'Letters to Johann Bernoulli' and 'The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding'

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8 ideas

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / c. Monads

13174

A piece of flint contains something resembling perceptions and appetites [Leibniz]

13175

Entelechies are analogous to souls, as other minds are analogous to our own minds [Leibniz]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance

4304	Descartes says there are two substance, Spinoza one, and Leibniz infinitely many [Cottingham]

10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 4. Conceivable as Possible / c. Possible but inconceivable

13172

What we cannot imagine may still exist [Leibniz]

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

19261

Understanding is seeing coherent relationships in the relevant information [Kvanvig]

12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism

4303	The notion of substance lies at the heart of rationalist metaphysics [Cottingham]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / e. Death

13173

Death is just the contraction of an animal [Leibniz]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

4306	For rationalists, it is necessary that effects be deducible from their causes [Cottingham]