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All the ideas for 'Are Persons Bodies?', 'The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge' and 'works'

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6 ideas

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 5. Essence as Kind

13074

Only natural kinds and their members have real essences [Suárez, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism

8824	No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim]

16. Persons / A. Concept of a Person / 1. Existence of Persons

3238	'Dead person' isn't a contradiction, so 'person' is somewhat vague [Williams,B]

3239	You can only really love a person as a token, not as a type [Williams,B]

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

7563	The old 'influx' view of causation says it is a flow of accidental properties from A to B [Suárez, by Jolley]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

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The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer]