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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'De rebus naturalibus' and 'Evil and Omnipotence'

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5 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived

16740

A power is not a cause, but an aptitude for a cause [Zabarella]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / b. Prime matter

16571

Prime matter is exceptionally obscure [Zabarella]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 1. God

6011	There is a remote first god (the Good), and a second god who organises the material world [Numenius, by O'Meara]

29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 3. Problem of Evil / a. Problem of Evil

1473	Is evil an illusion, or a necessary contrast, or uncontrollable, or necessary for human free will? [Mackie, by PG]

1472	The propositions that God is good and omnipotent, and that evil exists, are logically contradictory [Mackie, by PG]