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'reports', 'Causation in a Physical World' and 'New Essays on Human Understanding'
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation
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Explain single events by general rules, or vice versa, or probability explains both, or they are unconnected [Field,H]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 5. Direction of causation
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Physical laws are largely time-symmetric, so they make a poor basis for directional causation [Field,H]
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Identifying cause and effect is not just conventional; we explain later events by earlier ones [Field,H]
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The only reason for adding the notion of 'cause' to fundamental physics is directionality [Field,H]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / a. Scientific essentialism
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Qualities should be predictable from the nature of the subject [Leibniz]
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Gold has a real essence, unknown to us, which produces its properties [Leibniz]
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Part of our idea of gold is its real essence, which is not known to us in detail [Leibniz]
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