Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Actualism and Thisness', 'Letters to Thomasius' and 'De Mundo Praesenti'

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5 ideas

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

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The substantial form is the principle of action or the primitive force of acting [Leibniz]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / d. Individuation by haecceity

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Adams says actual things have haecceities, but not things that only might exist [Adams,RM, by Stalnaker]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects

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The essence of a circle is the equality of its radii [Leibniz]

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A true being must (unlike a chain) have united parts, with a substantial form as its subject [Leibniz]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

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Bodies are recreated in motion, and don't exist in intervening instants [Leibniz]