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'Katzav on limitations of dispositions', 'Intentionality and the Physical: reply to Mumford' and 'The Internalist Conception of Justification'
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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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Dispositions are not general laws, but laws of the natures of individual entities [Place]
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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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