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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Has Philosophy Lost Contact with People?' and 'Causality and Determinism'

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1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 3. Wisdom Deflated

9764	Inspiration and social improvement need wisdom, but not professional philosophy [Quine]

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 6. Hopes for Philosophy

9763	For a good theory of the world, we must focus on our flabby foundational vocabulary [Quine]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 3. Constraints on the will

8353	Freedom involves acting according to an idea [Anscombe]

16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism

8352	To believe in determinism, one must believe in a system which determines events [Anscombe]

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 / 5. Direction of causation

8351	With diseases we easily trace a cause from an effect, but we cannot predict effects [Anscombe]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 6. Causation as primitive

4777	The word 'cause' is an abstraction from a group of causal terms in a language (scrape, push..) [Anscombe]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata

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Causation is relative to how we describe the primary relata [Anscombe, by Schaffer,J]

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

8350	Since Mill causation has usually been explained by necessary and sufficient conditions [Anscombe]

27. Natural Reality / G. Biology / 3. Evolution

5989	Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield]