Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Empedocles, Michael Tooley and Metrodorus (Chi)
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 1. Nature
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'Nature' is just a word invented by people [Empedocles]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / e. The One
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The principle of 'Friendship' in Empedocles is the One, and is bodiless [Empedocles, by Plotinus]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / f. Ancient elements
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Empedocles said that there are four material elements, and two further creative elements [Empedocles, by Aristotle]
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Empedocles says bone is water, fire and earth in ratio 2:4:2 [Empedocles, by Inwood]
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Fire, Water, Air and Earth are elements, being simple as well as homoeomerous [Empedocles, by Aristotle]
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All change is unity through love or division through hate [Empedocles]
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The elements combine in coming-to-be, but how do the elements themselves come-to-be? [Aristotle on Empedocles]
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Love and Strife only explain movement if their effects are distinctive [Aristotle on Empedocles]
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If the one Being ever diminishes it would no longer exist, and what could ever increase it? [Empedocles]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 2. Types of cause
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Causation is either direct realism, Humean reduction, non-Humean reduction or theoretical realism [Tooley]
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Causation distinctions: reductionism/realism; Humean/non-Humean states; observable/non-observable [Tooley]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation
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Reductionists can't explain accidents, uninstantiated laws, probabilities, or the existence of any laws [Tooley]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 5. Direction of causation
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We can only reduce the direction of causation to the direction of time if we are realist about the latter [Tooley]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / a. Observation of causation
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Causation is directly observable in pressure on one's body, and in willed action [Tooley]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / e. Probabilistic causation
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Quantum physics suggests that the basic laws of nature are probabilistic [Tooley]
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Probabilist laws are compatible with effects always or never happening [Tooley]
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The actual cause may not be the most efficacious one [Tooley]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / a. Constant conjunction
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In counterfactual worlds there are laws with no instances, so laws aren't supervenient on actuality [Tooley]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / b. Nomological causation
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Explaining causation in terms of laws can't explain the direction of causation [Tooley]
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Causation is a concept of a relation the same in all worlds, so it can't be a physical process [Tooley]
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