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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 1. Nature
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We are so far from understanding the workings of natural bodies that it is pointless to even try [Locke]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / a. Early Modern matter
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I take 'matter' to be a body, excluding its extension in space and its shape [Locke]
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26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 1. Natural Kinds
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Science rests on the principle that nature is a hierarchy of natural kinds [Harré]
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26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 3. Knowing Kinds
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We distinguish species by their nominal essence, not by their real essence [Locke]
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26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 4. Source of Kinds
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If we observe total regularity, there must be some unknown law and relationships controlling it [Locke]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation
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Causes are the substances which have the powers to produce action [Locke]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 1. Laws of Nature
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Classification is just as important as laws in natural science [Harré]
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Newton's First Law cannot be demonstrated experimentally, as that needs absence of external forces [Harré]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 2. Types of Laws
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Laws can come from data, from theory, from imagination and concepts, or from procedures [Harré]
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Are laws of nature about events, or types and universals, or dispositions, or all three? [Harré]
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Are laws about what has or might happen, or do they also cover all the possibilities? [Harré]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 5. Laws from Universals
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Maybe laws of nature are just relations between properties? [Harré]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 7. Strictness of Laws
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Must laws of nature be universal, or could they be local? [Harré]
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We take it that only necessary happenings could be laws [Harré]
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Laws describe abstract idealisations, not the actual mess of nature [Harré]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / a. Scientific essentialism
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If we knew the minute mechanics of hemlock, we could predict that it kills men [Locke]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / b. Scientific necessity
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Boyle and Locke believed corpuscular structures necessitate their powers of interaction [Locke, by Alexander,P]
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The corpuscular hypothesis is the best explanation of the necessary connection and co-existence of powers [Locke]
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We will only understand substance when we know the necessary connections between powers and qualities [Locke]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws
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Laws of nature state necessary connections of things, events and properties, based on models of mechanisms [Harré]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / d. Knowing essences
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We identify substances by supposing that groups of sensations arise from an essence [Locke]
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Other spirits may exceed us in knowledge, by knowing the inward constitution of things [Locke]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 9. Counterfactual Claims
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In counterfactuals we keep substances constant, and imagine new situations for them [Harré]
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