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Ideas for 'talk', 'Essays on Active Powers 1: Active power' and 'The Metaphysics of Scientific Realism'

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26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 2. Defining Kinds

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There are natural kinds of processes [Ellis]

26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 4. Source of Kinds

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Natural kind structures go right down to the bottom level [Ellis]

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 / 3. Laws and Generalities

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Laws of nature are just descriptions of how things are disposed to behave [Ellis]