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All the ideas for 'Explaining the A Priori', 'The Analyst' and 'Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World'

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / k. Infinitesimals
18091 Infinitesimals are ghosts of departed quantities [Berkeley]
14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / i. Explanations by mechanism
17093 Causation produces productive mechanisms; to understand the world, understand these mechanisms [Salmon]
17492 Salmon's interaction mechanisms needn't be regular, or involving any systems [Glennan on Salmon]
18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / a. Origin of concepts
17722 The concept 'red' is tied to what actually individuates red things [Peacocke]