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All the ideas for 'De Mundo (On the World)', 'On suicide' and 'Varieties of Causation'

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6 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being
16789 Only supernatural means could annihilate anything once it had being [Hobbes]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 12. Essential Parts
8443 Mereological essentialism says an entity must have exactly those parts [Sosa]
25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 4. Suicide
4677 If suicide is wrong because only God disposes of our lives, it must also be wrong to save lives [Hume]
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]