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'Natural Kinds', 'On the Notion of Cause' and 'Gilles Deleuze'
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26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 1. Natural Kinds
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Quine probably regrets natural kinds now being treated as essences [Quine, by Dennett]
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If similarity has no degrees, kinds cannot be contained within one another [Quine]
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Comparative similarity allows the kind 'colored' to contain the kind 'red' [Quine]
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26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 3. Knowing Kinds
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You can't base kinds just on resemblance, because chains of resemblance are a muddle [Quine]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 7. Eliminating causation
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The law of causality is a source of confusion, and should be dropped from philosophy [Russell]
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If causes are contiguous with events, only the last bit is relevant, or the event's timing is baffling [Russell]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / a. Constant conjunction
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Striking a match causes its igniting, even if it sometimes doesn't work [Russell]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / a. Regularity theory
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It is hard to see how regularities could be explained [Quine]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 5. Laws from Universals
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In causal laws, 'events' must recur, so they have to be universals, not particulars [Russell]
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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 6. Laws as Numerical
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The constancy of scientific laws rests on differential equations, not on cause and effect [Russell]
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