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All the ideas for 'Events and Their Names', 'Letters to Leibniz' and 'Against Barbaric physics'

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4 ideas

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / c. Reduction of events
Events are made of other things, and are not fundamental to ontology [Bennett]
8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence
The question is whether force is self-sufficient in bodies, and essential, or dependent on something [Lenfant]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata
Facts are about the world, not in it, so they can't cause anything [Bennett]
27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / c. Forces
Some people return to scholastic mysterious qualities, disguising them as 'forces' [Leibniz]