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Ideas for 'Locke on Essences and Kinds', 'The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge' and 'The Metaontology of Abstraction'

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26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 4. Source of Kinds

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Kinds are fixed by the essential properties of things - the properties that make it that kind of thing [Eagle]

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]