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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'On the Necessity of Origin' and 'Causation'

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7 ideas

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / a. Facts
8386 Events are picked out by descriptions, and facts by whole sentences [Crane]
9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 10. Beginning of an Object
18892 Suppose a world where I'm from different gametes; add my gametes; which one is more me? [McGinn]
9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 12. Origin as Essential
12019 McGinn falsely claims necessity of origin is a special case of the necessity of identity [Forbes,G on McGinn]
26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 5. Infinite in Nature
1748 Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation
8387 A cause has its effects in virtue of its properties [Crane]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / a. Constant conjunction
8384 The regularity theory explains a causal event by other items than the two that are involved [Crane]
27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution
5989 Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]