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'Katzav on limitations of dispositions', 'Writings from Late Notebooks' and 'The Metaphysics of Space-Time Substantivalism'
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / b. Limited purposes
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'Purpose' is like the sun, where most heat is wasted, and a tiny part has 'purpose' [Nietzsche]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / c. Purpose denied
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If the world aimed at an end, it would have reached it by now [Nietzsche]
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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 / 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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Things are strong or weak, and do not behave regularly or according to rules or compulsions [Nietzsche]
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Chemical 'laws' are merely the establishment of power relations between weaker and stronger [Nietzsche]
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All motions and 'laws' are symptoms of inner events, traceable to the will to power [Nietzsche]
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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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