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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Varieties of Causation' and 'The Nature and Communication of Substance'

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7 ideas

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 12. Essential Parts
8443 Mereological essentialism says an entity must have exactly those parts [Sosa]
10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity
490 Everything happens by reason and necessity [Leucippus]
17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 5. Parallelism
2596 Maybe mind and body are parallel, like two good clocks [Leibniz]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / b. Nomological causation
8442 What law would explain causation in the case of causing a table to come into existence? [Sosa]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity
8445 The necessitated is not always a result or consequence of the necessitator [Sosa]
8444 Where is the necessary causation in the three people being tall making everybody tall? [Sosa]
28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / b. Teleological Proof
2595 If the universe is a perfect agreement of uncommunicating substances, there must be a common source [Leibniz]