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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'reports' and 'On the Ultimate Origination of Things'

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence

7696	Leibniz first asked 'why is there something rather than nothing?' [Leibniz, by Jacquette]

19341

There must be a straining towards existence in the essence of all possible things [Leibniz]

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Because something does exist, there must be a drive in possible things towards existence [Leibniz]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence

5992	Chrysippus says action is the criterion for existence, which must be physical [Chrysippus, by Tieleman]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / b. Types of fact

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There are simple and complex facts; the latter depend on further facts [Chrysippus, by Cicero]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 3. Proposed Categories

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Stoics categories are Substrate, Quality, Disposition, and Relation [Chrysippus, by Pasnau]