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Ideas for B Hale / C Wright, Immanuel Kant and Anaxagoras
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 1. Nature
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Kant's nature is just a system of necessary laws [Bowie on Kant]
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Kant identifies nature with the scientific picture of it as the realm of law [Kant, by McDowell]
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The Critique of Judgement aims for a principle that unities humanity and nature [Kant, by Bowie]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / a. Final purpose
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For Anaxagoras the Good Mind has no opposite, and causes all movement, for a higher reason [Anaxagoras, by Aristotle]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / b. Limited purposes
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Reason must assume as necessary that everything in a living organism has a proportionate purpose [Kant]
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Without men creation would be in vain, and without final purpose [Kant]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / a. Greek matter
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Mind creates the world from a mixture of pure substances [Anaxagoras, by ]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / c. Ultimate substances
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Anaxagoras said that the number of principles was infinite [Anaxagoras, by Aristotle]
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The ultimate constituents of reality are the homoeomeries [Anaxagoras, by Vlastos]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / f. Ancient elements
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Anaxagoreans regard the homoeomeries as elements, which compose earth, air, fire and water [Anaxagoras, by Aristotle]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / c. Matter as extension
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Extension and impenetrability together make the concept of matter [Kant]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation
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Anaxagoras says mind produces order and causes everything [Anaxagoras, by Plato]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata
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A ball denting a pillow seems like simultaneous cause and effect, though time identifies which is cause [Kant]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / a. Constant conjunction
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Appearances give rules of what usually happens, but cause involves necessity [Kant]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / b. Nomological causation
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The concept of causality entails laws; random causality is a contradiction [Kant, by Korsgaard]
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We judge causation by relating events together by some law of nature [Kant, by Mares]
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Experience is only possible because we subject appearances to causal laws [Kant]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity
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Causation obviously involves necessity, so it cannot just be frequent association [Kant]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / b. Scientific necessity
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For Kant the laws must be necessary, because contingency would destroy representation [Kant, by Meillassoux]
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Kant fails to prove the necessity of laws, because his reasoning about chance is over-ambitious [Meillassoux on Kant]
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