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All the ideas for 'The Scientific Revolution 1500-1800', 'Scepticism' and 'works'

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26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 9. Counterfactual Claims

4398	An event causes another just if the second event would not have happened without the first [Lewis, by Psillos]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature

5470	The idea of laws of nature arose in the Middle Ages [Hall,AR, by Ellis]

27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement

20365

We only see points in motion, and thereby infer movement [Rescher]