8 ideas
16669 | Everything that exists is either a being, or some mode of a being [Malebranche] |
13168 | My formal unifying atoms are substantial forms, which are forces like appetites [Leibniz] |
13169 | I call Aristotle's entelechies 'primitive forces', which originate activity [Leibniz] |
13170 | The analysis of things leads to atoms of substance, which found both composition and action [Leibniz] |
13171 | Substance must necessarily involve progress and change [Leibniz] |
9284 | Reasons are 'internal' if they give a person a motive to act, but 'external' otherwise [Williams,B] |
12726 | In a true cause we see a necessary connection [Malebranche] |
13167 | We need the metaphysical notion of force to explain mechanics, and not just extended mass [Leibniz] |