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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature

1748	Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]
	Full Idea: Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless.
	From: report of Archelaus (fragments/reports [c.450 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 02.Ar.3

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / c. Counterfactual causation

16215	Causation is nothing more than the counterfactuals it grounds? [Hawley]
	Full Idea: Counterfactual accounts of causation say that a causal connection is exhausted by the counterfactuals it appears to ground.
	From: Katherine Hawley (How Things Persist [2001], 3.5)
	A reaction: I am bewildered as to how this became a respectable view in philosophy. I quite understand that this might exhaust the 'logic' of causal relations. Presumably you can have counterfactuals in mathematics which are not causal?