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All the ideas for 'Hobbes', 'Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World' and 'Exigency to Exist in Essences'

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6 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence

19400

Possibles demand existence, so as many of them as possible must actually exist [Leibniz]

19401

God's sufficient reason for choosing reality is in the fitness or perfection of possibilities [Leibniz]

10. Modality / E. Possible worlds / 1. Possible Worlds / a. Possible worlds

19402

The actual universe is the richest composite of what is possible [Leibniz]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism

7413	Without confidence in our beliefs, how should we actually live? [Tuck]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / i. Explanations by mechanism

17093

Causation produces productive mechanisms; to understand the world, understand these mechanisms [Salmon]

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Salmon's interaction mechanisms needn't be regular, or involving any systems [Glennan on Salmon]