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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Letters to Oldenburg' and 'Quodlibeta'

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8 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes

16641

Whiteness does not exist, but by it something can exist-as-white [Aquinas]

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity

490	Everything happens by reason and necessity [Leucippus]

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

22170

Senses grasp external properties, but the understanding grasps the essential natures of things [Aquinas]

12. Knowledge Sources / A. A Priori Knowledge / 3. Innate Knowledge / a. Innate knowledge

22169

Initial universal truths are present within us as potential, to be drawn out by reason [Aquinas]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 3. Representation

22168

Minds take in a likeness of things, which activates an awaiting potential [Aquinas]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism

4867	Whether nature is beautiful or orderly is entirely in relation to human imagination [Spinoza]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 3. Divine Perfections

4866	God is a being with infinite attributes, each of them infinite or perfect [Spinoza]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / e. Miracles

4868	Trying to prove God's existence through miracles is proving the obscure by the more obscure [Spinoza]