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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Event Causation: counterfactual analysis' and 'Opus Maius (major works)'

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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation
Either cause and effect are subsumed under a conditional because of properties, or it is counterfactual [Bennett]
Delaying a fire doesn't cause it, but hastening it might [Bennett]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 2. Types of cause
Causes are between events ('the explosion') or between facts/states of affairs ('a bomb dropped') [Bennett]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / c. Counterfactual causation
The full counterfactual story asserts a series of events, because counterfactuals are not transitive [Bennett]
A counterfactual about an event implies something about the event's essence [Bennett]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / d. Knowing essences
No one even knows the nature and properties of a fly - why it has that colour, or so many feet [Bacon,R]