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Ideas for 'After Finitude', 'Inessential Aristotle: Powers without Essences' and 'Posterior Analytics'

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26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 4. Source of Kinds

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Some kinds, such as electrons, have essences, but 'cluster kinds' do not [Chakravartty]

26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 6. Necessity of Kinds

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Whatever holds of a kind intrinsically holds of it necessarily [Aristotle]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 1. Laws of Nature

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Many causal laws do not refer to kinds, but only to properties [Chakravartty]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / b. Scientific necessity

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If the laws of nature are contingent, shouldn't we already have noticed it? [Meillassoux]

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Why are contingent laws of nature stable? [Meillassoux]