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All the ideas for 'works', 'works' and 'Popular Scientific Lectures'

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4 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 2. Positivism

15873

Laws of nature are just records of regularities and correlations, with concepts to make recording them easier [Mach, by Harré]

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 3. Contradiction

10121

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor lack of contradiction a sign of truth [Pascal]

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]

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]