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'Katzav on limitations of dispositions', 'Political Liberalism' and 'Every Thing Must Go'
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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 / B. Natural Kinds / 3. Knowing Kinds
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Explanation by kinds and by clusters of properties just express the stability of reality [Ladyman/Ross]
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26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 4. Source of Kinds
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There is nothing more to a natural kind than a real pattern in nature [Ladyman/Ross]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 7. Eliminating causation
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Causation is found in the special sciences, but may have no role in fundamental physics [Ladyman/Ross]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 1. Laws of Nature
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Science may have uninstantiated laws, inferred from approaching some unrealised limit [Ladyman/Ross]
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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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