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Ideas for 'Croce and Collingwood', 'On the Plurality of Worlds' and 'Essay Conc Human Understanding (2nd Ed)'

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14. Science / C. Induction / 2. Aims of Induction

9661	Induction is just reasonable methods of inferring the unobserved from the observed [Lewis]

14. Science / C. Induction / 5. Paradoxes of Induction / a. Grue problem

9652	To just expect unexamined emeralds to be grue would be totally unreasonable [Lewis]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / g. Causal explanations

9658	An explanation tells us how an event was caused [Lewis]

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Often explanaton seeks fundamental laws, rather than causal histories [Lewis]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / k. Explanations by essence

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Locke seems to use real essence for scientific explanation, and substratum for the being of a thing [Locke, by Jones,J-E]

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To explain qualities, Locke invokes primary and secondary qualities, not real essences [Locke, by Jones,J-E]

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Gold is supposed to have a real essence, from whence its detectable properties flow [Locke]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / l. Probabilistic explanations

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If the well-ordering of a pack of cards was by shuffling, the explanation would make it more surprising [Lewis]