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Ideas for 'Events and Their Names', 'The Metaphysic of Abstract Particulars' and 'Aristotle and the Metaphysics'

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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata
Facts are about the world, not in it, so they can't cause anything [Bennett]
Causal conditions are particular abstract instances of properties, which makes them tropes [Campbell,K]
Davidson can't explain causation entirely by events, because conditions are also involved [Campbell,K]