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Ideas for 'The Advancement of Learning', 'Against Elections' and 'Essays on Active Powers 1: Active power'

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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / c. Purpose denied

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Teleological accounts are fine in metaphysics, but they stop us from searching for the causes [Bacon]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / a. Constant conjunction

8383	Day and night are constantly conjoined, but they don't cause one another [Reid, by Crane]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

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Regular events don't imply a cause, without an innate conviction of universal causation [Reid]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 1. Laws of Nature

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Scientists don't know the cause of magnetism, and only discover its regulations [Reid]

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Laws are rules for effects, but these need a cause; rules of navigation don't navigate [Reid]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / a. Scientific essentialism

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Essences are part of first philosophy, but as part of nature, not part of logic [Bacon]