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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / b. Limited purposes
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We can discover some laws of nature, but never its ultimate principles and causes [Hume]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / e. The One
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There could be movement within one thing, as there is within water [Aristotle on Parmenides]
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The one can't be divisible, because if it was it could be infinitely divided down to nothing [Parmenides, by Simplicius]
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Defenders of the One say motion needs the void - but that is not part of Being [Parmenides, by Aristotle]
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Reason sees reality as one, the senses see it as many [Aristotle on Parmenides]
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Reality is symmetrical and balanced, like a sphere, with no reason to be greater one way rather than another [Parmenides]
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555
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People who say that the cosmos is one forget that they must explain movement [Aristotle on Parmenides]
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The one is without any kind of motion [Parmenides]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / f. Ancient elements
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He taught that there are two elements, fire the maker, and earth the matter [Parmenides, by Diog. Laertius]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation
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If a singular effect is studied, its cause can only be inferred from the types of events involved [Hume]
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A priori it looks as if a cause could have absolutely any effect [Hume]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 7. Eliminating causation
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Hume never even suggests that there is no such thing as causation [Hume, by Strawson,G]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata
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At first Hume said qualities are the causal entities, but later he said events [Hume, by Davidson]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / a. Constant conjunction
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Hume says we can only know constant conjunctions, not that that's what causation IS [Hume, by Strawson,G]
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No causes can be known a priori, but only from experience of constant conjunctions [Hume]
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In both of Hume's definitions, causation is extrinsic to the sequence of events [Psillos on Hume]
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Hume's definition of cause as constantly joined thoughts can't cover undiscovered laws [Ayer on Hume]
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A cause is either similar events following one another, or an experience always suggesting a second experience [Hume]
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It is only when two species of thing are constantly conjoined that we can infer one from the other [Hume]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / c. Counterfactual causation
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Cause is where if the first object had not been, the second had not existed [Hume]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity
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Hume never shows how a strong habit could generate the concept of necessity [Harré/Madden on Hume]
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Hume's regularity theory of causation is epistemological; he believed in some sort of natural necessity [Hume, by Strawson,G]
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In observing causes we can never observe any necessary connections or binding qualities [Hume]
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