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All the ideas for 'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'Letters to Foucher' and 'Philosophy and Scientific Image of Man'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / c. Philosophy as generalisation

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Philosophy aims to understand how things (broadly understood) hang together (broadly understood) [Sellars]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 2. Reduction

6550	Reduction requires that an object's properties consist of its constituents' properties and relations [Sellars]

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

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Essence is primitive force, or a law of change [Leibniz]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues

7903	The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

2117	The connection in events enables us to successfully predict the future, so there must be a constant cause [Leibniz]