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All the ideas for 'Clitophon', 'New system of communication of substances' and 'A world of truthmakers?'

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7 ideas

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 6. Making Negative Truths

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If it were true that nothing at all existed, would that have a truthmaker? [Lewis]

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence

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My formal unifying atoms are substantial forms, which are forces like appetites [Leibniz]

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I call Aristotle's entelechies 'primitive forces', which originate activity [Leibniz]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Simples

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The analysis of things leads to atoms of substance, which found both composition and action [Leibniz]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance

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Substance must necessarily involve progress and change [Leibniz]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 2. Values / f. Altruism

1590	The just man does not harm his enemies, but benefits everyone [Plato]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / c. Forces

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We need the metaphysical notion of force to explain mechanics, and not just extended mass [Leibniz]