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'Katzav on limitations of dispositions', 'Formal and Transcendental Logic' and 'Causality: Production and Propagation'
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26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 1. Natural Kinds
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The natural kinds are objects, processes and properties/relations [Ellis]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation
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A causal interaction is when two processes intersect, and correlated modifications persist afterwards [Salmon]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 5. Direction of causation
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Cause must come first in propagations of causal interactions, but interactions are simultaneous [Salmon]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata
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Instead of localised events, I take enduring and extended processes as basic to causation [Salmon]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 2. Types of Laws
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Least action is not a causal law, but a 'global law', describing a global essence [Ellis]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / a. Scientific essentialism
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A species requires a genus, and its essence includes the essence of the genus [Ellis]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws
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A hierarchy of natural kinds is elaborate ontology, but needed to explain natural laws [Ellis]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / d. Knowing essences
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Without general principles, we couldn't predict the behaviour of dispositional properties [Ellis]
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