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All the ideas for 'A Puzzle Concerning Matter and Form', 'Gilles Deleuze' and 'New system of communication of substances'

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9 ideas

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy

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Deleuze relies on Spinoza (immanence), Bergson (duration), and difference (Nietzsche) [May]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence

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My formal unifying atoms are substantial forms, which are forces like appetites [Leibniz]

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I call Aristotle's entelechies 'primitive forces', which originate activity [Leibniz]

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The possible Aristotelian view that forms are real and active principles is clearly wrong [Fine,K, by Pasnau]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Simples

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The analysis of things leads to atoms of substance, which found both composition and action [Leibniz]

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

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Substance must necessarily involve progress and change [Leibniz]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 1. Existentialism

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For existentialists the present is empty without the pull of the future and weight of the past [May]

24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 6. Liberalism / a. Liberalism basics

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Liberal theory starts from the governed, not from the governor [May]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / c. Forces

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We need the metaphysical notion of force to explain mechanics, and not just extended mass [Leibniz]