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Ideas for Empedocles, R.D. Ingthorsson and Anselm
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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 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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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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460
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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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Empedocles said that there are four material elements, and two further creative elements [Empedocles, by Aristotle]
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All change is unity through love or division through hate [Empedocles]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 2. Types of cause
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Humeans describe the surface of causation, while powers accounts aim at deeper explanations [Ingthorsson]
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Time and space are not causal, but they determine natural phenomena [Ingthorsson]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation
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Causation as transfer only works for asymmetric interactions [Ingthorsson]
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Casuation is the transmission of conserved quantities between causal processes [Ingthorsson]
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Interventionist causal theory says it gets a reliable result whenever you manipulate it [Ingthorsson]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata
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Causal events are always reciprocal, and there is no distinction of action and reaction [Ingthorsson]
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One effect cannot act on a second effect in causation, because the second doesn't yet exist [Ingthorsson]
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Empiricists preferred events to objects as the relata, because they have observable motions [Ingthorsson]
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Science now says all actions are reciprocal, not unidirectional [Ingthorsson]
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Causes are not agents; the whole interaction is the cause, and the changed compound is the effect [Ingthorsson]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / c. Counterfactual causation
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People only accept the counterfactual when they know the underlying cause [Ingthorsson]
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Counterfactuals don't explain causation, but causation can explain counterfactuals [Ingthorsson]
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Counterfactual theories are false in possible worlds where causation is actual [Ingthorsson]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity
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A cause can fail to produce its normal effect, by prevention, pre-emption, finks or antidotes [Ingthorsson]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 1. Laws of Nature
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Any process can go backwards or forwards in time without violating the basic laws of physics [Ingthorsson]
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