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All the ideas for 'Katzav on limitations of dispositions', 'Necessary Truth' and 'Rules for the Direction of the Mind'

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7 ideas

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 11. Denial of Necessity

4577	There is no necessity higher than natural necessity, and that is just regularity [Quine]

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

9807	In pursuing truth, anything less certain than mathematics is a waste of time [Descartes]

26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 1. Natural Kinds

6613	The natural kinds are objects, processes and properties/relations [Ellis]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 2. Types of Laws

6616	Least action is not a causal law, but a 'global law', describing a global essence [Ellis]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / a. Scientific essentialism

6615	A species requires a genus, and its essence includes the essence of the genus [Ellis]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws

6614	A hierarchy of natural kinds is elaborate ontology, but needed to explain natural laws [Ellis]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / d. Knowing essences

6612	Without general principles, we couldn't predict the behaviour of dispositional properties [Ellis]