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'Natural Kinds', 'Set Theory and its Logic' and 'Treatise of Human Nature'
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26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / a. Early Modern matter
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We have no good concept of solidity or matter, because accounts of them are all circular [Hume]
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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 / 8. Particular Causation / c. Conditions of causation
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For Hume a constant conjunction is both necessary and sufficient for causation [Hume, by Crane]
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26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity
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Hume seems to presuppose necessary connections between mental events [Kripke on Hume]
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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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