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Ideas for 'Pragmatism - eight lectures', 'Causal Structuralism' and 'Locke on Essences and Kinds'

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

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Kinds are fixed by the essential properties of things - the properties that make it that kind of thing [Eagle]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 7. Eliminating causation

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Maybe scientific causation is just generalisation about the patterns [Hawthorne]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 6. Laws as Numerical

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We only know the mathematical laws, but not much else [Hawthorne]