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Ideas for 'Papancasudani', 'Mental Events' and 'The Principles of Mathematics'

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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 7. Eliminating causation

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We can drop 'cause', and just make inferences between facts [Russell]

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Moments and points seem to imply other moments and points, but don't cause them [Russell]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata

3524	Causation is either between events, or between descriptions of events [Davidson, by Maslin]

3526	Whether an event is a causal explanation depends on how it is described [Davidson, by Maslin]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature

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The laws of motion and gravitation are just parts of the definition of a kind of matter [Russell]