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'Taking Rights Seriously', 'Logic and Epistemology of Causal Relations' and 'Writings from Late Notebooks'
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / b. Limited purposes
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'Purpose' is like the sun, where most heat is wasted, and a tiny part has 'purpose' [Nietzsche]
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / c. Purpose denied
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If the world aimed at an end, it would have reached it by now [Nietzsche]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 5. Direction of causation
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p is a cause and q an effect (not vice versa) if manipulations of p change q [Wright,GHv]
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We can imagine controlling floods by controlling rain, but not vice versa [Wright,GHv]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / a. Observation of causation
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The very notion of a cause depends on agency and action [Wright,GHv]
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We give regularities a causal character by subjecting them to experiment [Wright,GHv]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / c. Conditions of causation
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We must further analyse conditions for causation, into quantifiers or modal concepts [Wright,GHv]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 2. Types of Laws
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Some laws are causal (Ohm's Law), but others are conceptual principles (conservation of energy) [Wright,GHv]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws
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Things are strong or weak, and do not behave regularly or according to rules or compulsions [Nietzsche]
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Chemical 'laws' are merely the establishment of power relations between weaker and stronger [Nietzsche]
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All motions and 'laws' are symptoms of inner events, traceable to the will to power [Nietzsche]
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