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All the ideas for 'Space, Time and Deity (2 vols)', 'Letters to Oldenburg' and 'Letter to G.H. Schaller'

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5 ideas

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 5. Against Free Will

4871	A thing is free if it acts only by the necessity of its own nature [Spinoza]

17. Mind and Body / A. Mind-Body Dualism / 6. Epiphenomenalism

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Epiphenomenalism is like a pointless nobleman, kept for show, but soon to be abolished [Alexander,S]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / f. Ethical non-cognitivism

4867	Whether nature is beautiful or orderly is entirely in relation to human imagination [Spinoza]

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

4866	God is a being with infinite attributes, each of them infinite or perfect [Spinoza]

28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / e. Miracles

4868	Trying to prove God's existence through miracles is proving the obscure by the more obscure [Spinoza]