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All the ideas for 'Mind and Its Place in Nature', 'The Problem of Natural Laws' and 'Introduction to Philosophical Papers II'

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4 ideas

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / d. Humean supervenience
16210 Humean supervenience says the world is just a vast mosaic of qualities in space-time [Lewis]
12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 6. Inference in Perception
7628 Broad rejects the inferential component of the representative theory [Broad, by Maund]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 3. Laws and Generalities
4800 Natural laws result from eliminative induction, where enumerative induction gives generalisations [Cohen,LJ, by Psillos]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 11. Against Laws of Nature
9426 The world is just a vast mosaic of little matters of local particular fact [Lewis]