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Is Ideology Unconscious? with Kenny Novis and Gil Morejon

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Leibniz Spinoza Determinism - Is There a Connection?

For Spinoza, there's no question of a kind of realm of possibilities and then just one composable world. Pauline Femister at the University of Edinburgh stresses that while for Leibniz, there's a principle of sufficient reason, which is God selecting the best of all possible worlds out of a variety of possible worlds. For him, now the two kinds of domains are going to be governed by different principles. He usually says stuff like this world has exhibits like an optimal ratio or proportion between the number of laws that govern its natural interactions and the diversity of the effects they have.

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