Bodies are well-founded phenomena rather than mere incohe... — Carmelics

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Bodies are well-founded phenomena rather than mere incoherent dreams or fictions.

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1.Bodies result from aggregates of simple substances.
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2.Simple substances are real beings.
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3.A phenomenon that has its foundation in real beings is a well-founded phenomenon, not a mere illusion.
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1.The unity conditions Leibniz attributes to monads are imposed by perceiving minds, not discovered in mind-independent reality (Kant, CPR A100–110).
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2.If phenomenal coherence depends on mental synthesis rather than monadic aggregation, bodies derive their order from cognition, not from real simple substances.
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3.A phenomenon grounded solely in cognitive activity lacks the mind-independent foundation required to distinguish it from a well-ordered dream.
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