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Ideas for 'works', 'The Human Condition' and 'Causal Structuralism'

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

8660	There are potential infinities (never running out), but actual infinity is incoherent [Aristotle, by Friend]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / a. Greek matter

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Aristotle's matter can become any other kind of matter [Aristotle, by Wiggins]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 7. Eliminating causation

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Maybe scientific causation is just generalisation about the patterns [Hawthorne]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 6. Laws as Numerical

15125

We only know the mathematical laws, but not much else [Hawthorne]