Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Dappled World', 'On Sufficient Reason' and 'Les quaestiones de anima (lectures on the soul)'

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4 ideas

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 1. Laws of Thought

19404

Necessities rest on contradiction, and contingencies on sufficient reason [Leibniz]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 1. Scientific Theory

17503

Theories can never represent accurately, because their components are abstract [Cartwright,N, by Portides]

17. Mind and Body / E. Mind as Physical / 1. Physical Mind

16618

Intellectual and moral states, and even the soul itself, depend on prime matter for their existence [Blasius, by Pasnau]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws

19403

Each of the infinite possible worlds has its own laws, and the individuals contain those laws [Leibniz]