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All the ideas for 'Classical Cosmology (frags)', 'Varieties of Causation' and 'Quaestiones de Potentia Dei'

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6 ideas

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / b. Unifying aggregates
17555 'One' can mean undivided and not a multitude, or it can add measurement, giving number [Aquinas]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 12. Essential Parts
8443 Mereological essentialism says an entity must have exactly those parts [Sosa]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / b. Nomological causation
8442 What law would explain causation in the case of causing a table to come into existence? [Sosa]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity
8445 The necessitated is not always a result or consequence of the necessitator [Sosa]
8444 Where is the necessary causation in the three people being tall making everybody tall? [Sosa]
27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology
5994 Is the cosmos open or closed, mechanical or teleological, alive or inanimate, and created or eternal? [Robinson,TM, by PG]