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All the ideas for 'works', 'Letter to Mersenne' and 'New system of communication of substances'

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7 ideas

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

13169

I call Aristotle's entelechies 'primitive forces', which originate activity [Leibniz]

13168

My formal unifying atoms are substantial forms, which are forces like appetites [Leibniz]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Simples

13170

The analysis of things leads to atoms of substance, which found both composition and action [Leibniz]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance

13171

Substance must necessarily involve progress and change [Leibniz]

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 3. Evidentialism / b. Evidentialism

6587	It is always wrong to believe things on insufficient evidence [Clifford]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 3. Constraints on the will

3789	The more reasons that compel me, the freer I am [Descartes]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / c. Forces

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We need the metaphysical notion of force to explain mechanics, and not just extended mass [Leibniz]