Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'On Freedom' and 'Cogitata et Visa'

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6 ideas

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 5. Contingency

5040	Necessary truths can be analysed into original truths; contingent truths are infinitely analysable [Leibniz]

10. Modality / D. Knowledge of Modality / 2. A Priori Contingent

13159

Only God sees contingent truths a priori [Leibniz]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 3. Transworld Objects / e. Possible Objects

5039	If non-existents are possible, their existence would replace what now exists, which cannot therefore be necessary [Leibniz]

12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 1. Empiricism

3648	Empiricists are collecting ants; rationalists are spinning spiders; and bees do both [Bacon]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 1. God

6011	There is a remote first god (the Good), and a second god who organises the material world [Numenius, by O'Meara]

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

5041	God does everything in a perfect way, and never acts contrary to reason [Leibniz]