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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / b. Limited purposes
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'Purpose' is like the sun, where most heat is wasted, and a tiny part has 'purpose' [Nietzsche]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / c. Purpose denied
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If the world aimed at an end, it would have reached it by now [Nietzsche]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / d. The unlimited
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The Boundless cannot exist on its own, and must have something contrary to it [Aristotle on Anaximander]
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Things begin and end in the Unlimited, and are balanced over time according to justice [Anaximander]
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Anaximander introduced the idea that the first principle and element of things was the Boundless [Anaximander, by Simplicius]
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The essential nature, whatever it is, of the non-limited is everlasting and ageless [Anaximander]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity
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The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws
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Things are strong or weak, and do not behave regularly or according to rules or compulsions [Nietzsche]
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Chemical 'laws' are merely the establishment of power relations between weaker and stronger [Nietzsche]
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All motions and 'laws' are symptoms of inner events, traceable to the will to power [Nietzsche]
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