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'Politics', 'fragments/reports' and 'Event Causation: counterfactual analysis'
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / a. Final purpose
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If nature makes everything for a purpose, then plants and animals must have been made for man [Aristotle]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / b. Limited purposes
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The best instruments have one purpose, not many [Aristotle]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation
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Delaying a fire doesn't cause it, but hastening it might [Bennett]
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Either cause and effect are subsumed under a conditional because of properties, or it is counterfactual [Bennett]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 2. Types of cause
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Causes are between events ('the explosion') or between facts/states of affairs ('a bomb dropped') [Bennett]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / c. Counterfactual causation
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The full counterfactual story asserts a series of events, because counterfactuals are not transitive [Bennett]
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A counterfactual about an event implies something about the event's essence [Bennett]
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