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Ideas for 'Locke on Essences and Kinds', 'Letters to Remond de Montmort' and 'Counterfactual Dependence and Time's Arrow'

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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 / 5. Direction of causation

8433	There are few traces of an event before it happens, but many afterwards [Lewis, by Horwich]