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Ideas for 'Causality: Production and Propagation', 'Letters to Descartes' and 'Principles of Philosophy'

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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 1. Nature

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Physics only needs geometry or abstract mathematics, which can explain and demonstrate everything [Descartes]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 2. Natural Purpose / c. Purpose denied

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We will not try to understand natural or divine ends, or final causes [Descartes]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / c. Matter as extension

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Matter is not hard, heavy or coloured, but merely extended in space [Descartes]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation

8412	A causal interaction is when two processes intersect, and correlated modifications persist afterwards [Salmon]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 5. Direction of causation

8413	Cause must come first in propagations of causal interactions, but interactions are simultaneous [Salmon]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata

8411	Instead of localised events, I take enduring and extended processes as basic to causation [Salmon]