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Ideas for Eubulides, Gottfried Leibniz and Dorothy Edgington

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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / a. Intrinsic unification
12745 Philosophy needs the precision of the unity given by substances [Leibniz]
16513 Identity of a substance is the law of its persistence [Leibniz]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / b. Unifying aggregates
12699 A body would be endless disunited parts, if it did not have a unifying form or soul [Leibniz]
12921 Accidental unity has degrees, from a mob to a society to a machine or organism [Leibniz]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / c. Unity as conceptual
12746 We find unity in reason, and unity in perception, but these are not true unity [Leibniz]
12035 Leibniz bases pure primitive entities on conjunctions of qualitative properties [Leibniz, by Adams,RM]
13160 To exist and be understood, a multitude must first be reduced to a unity [Leibniz]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / a. Substance
19349 The complete notion of a substance implies all of its predicates or attributes [Leibniz]
12916 A body is a unified aggregate, unless it has an indivisible substance [Leibniz]
12919 Unity needs an indestructible substance, to contain everything which will happen to it [Leibniz]
12923 Every bodily substance must have a soul, or something analogous to a soul [Leibniz]
12716 The concept of forces or powers best reveals the true concept of substance [Leibniz]
13197 The notion of substance is one of the keys to true philosophy [Leibniz]
12943 Individuality is in the bond substance gives between past and future [Leibniz]
12776 Every substance is alive [Leibniz]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / b. Need for substance
12704 Aggregates don’t reduce to points, or atoms, or illusion, so must reduce to substance [Leibniz]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance
7558 Substances mirror God or the universe, each from its own viewpoint [Leibniz]
13161 Substances are everywhere in matter, like points in a line [Leibniz]
13171 Substance must necessarily involve progress and change [Leibniz]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / d. Substance defined
12712 Substance is that which can act [Leibniz]
13091 Leibnizian substances add concept, law, force, form and soul [Leibniz, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
11855 Substances cannot be bare, but have activity as their essence [Leibniz]
12756 Substance is a force for acting and being acted upon [Leibniz]
7561 Substances are essentially active [Leibniz, by Jolley]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / e. Substance critique
7931 If a substance is just a thing that has properties, it seems to be a characterless non-entity [Leibniz, by Macdonald,C]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / d. Coincident objects
12970 We can imagine two bodies interpenetrating, as two rays of light seem to [Leibniz]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / e. Vague objects
12986 The essence of baldness is vague and imperfect [Leibniz]