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Ideas for '', 'Every Thing Must Go' and 'Treatise of Human Nature, Appendix'

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26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 3. Knowing Kinds

14956

Explanation by kinds and by clusters of properties just express the stability of reality [Ladyman/Ross]

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

14957

There is nothing more to a natural kind than a real pattern in nature [Ladyman/Ross]

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

14954

Causation is found in the special sciences, but may have no role in fundamental physics [Ladyman/Ross]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / a. Constant conjunction

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Causation is just invariance, as long as it is described in general terms [Quine on Hume]

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If impressions, memories and ideas only differ in vivacity, nothing says it is memory, or repetition [Whitehead on Hume]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 1. Laws of Nature

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Science may have uninstantiated laws, inferred from approaching some unrealised limit [Ladyman/Ross]