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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Notice of Fine's 'Limits of Abstraction'' and 'On Body and Force, Against the Cartesians'

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7 ideas

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / h. Explanations by function

13195

To explain a house we must describe its use, as well as its parts [Leibniz]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 10. Conatus/Striving

13193

Active force is not just potential for action, since it involves a real effort or striving [Leibniz]

18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 7. Abstracta by Equivalence

9141	Abstraction theories build mathematics out of second-order equivalence principles [Cook/Ebert]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / d. Weakness of will

22511

Some reasonings are stronger than we are [Philolaus]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 1. Laws of Nature

13194

God's laws would be meaningless without internal powers for following them [Leibniz]

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

13196

All qualities of bodies reduce to forces [Leibniz]

13192

Power is passive force, which is mass, and active force, which is entelechy or form [Leibniz]