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'Events and Their Names', 'Homeostasis, Species and Higher Taxa' and 'Dispositions'
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26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 4. Source of Kinds
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The properties of an electron can't be explained just as 'clustering' [Chakravartty on Boyd]
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Properties cluster together, either because of intrinsic relations, or because of an underlying process [Boyd, by Chakravartty]
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Natural kinds, such as electrons, all behave the same way because we divide them by dispositions [Mumford]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata
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Facts are about the world, not in it, so they can't cause anything [Bennett]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 1. Laws of Nature
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In the 'laws' view events are basic, and properties are categorical, only existing when manifested [Mumford]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 3. Laws and Generalities
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Without laws, how can a dispositionalist explain general behaviour within kinds? [Mumford]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / a. Regularity theory
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Dretske and Armstrong base laws on regularities between individual properties, not between events [Mumford]
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It is a regularity that whenever a person sneezes, someone (somewhere) promptly coughs [Mumford]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / b. Scientific necessity
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The necessity of an electron being an electron is conceptual, and won't ground necessary laws [Mumford]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / d. Knowing essences
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Some dispositions are so far unknown, until we learn how to manifest them [Mumford]
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