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All the ideas for 'talk', 'Preface to 'Principles of Philosophy'' and 'Introduction to 'Causation''

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 4. Metaphysics as Science

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Metaphysics is the roots of the tree of science [Descartes]

2. Reason / F. Fallacies / 4. Circularity

3659	I know the truth that God exists and is the author of truth [Descartes]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty

3657	Understanding, not the senses, gives certainty [Descartes]

14. Science / C. Induction / 3. Limits of Induction

7295	Maybe induction is only reliable IF reality is stable [Mitchell,A]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 9. Perceiving Causation

8329	Either causal relations are given in experience, or they are unobserved and theoretical [Sosa/Tooley]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation

8324	The problem is to explain how causal laws and relations connect, and how they link to the world [Sosa/Tooley]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation

8328	Causation isn't energy transfer, because an electron is caused by previous temporal parts [Sosa/Tooley]

8327	If direction of causation is just direction of energy transfer, that seems to involve causation [Sosa/Tooley]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / c. Conditions of causation

8330	Are causes sufficient for the event, or necessary, or both? [Sosa/Tooley]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / b. Nomological causation

8325	The dominant view is that causal laws are prior; a minority say causes can be explained singly [Sosa/Tooley]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

3660	Atheism arises from empiricism, because God is intangible [Descartes]