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All the ideas for 'The Structure of Content', 'talk' and 'Causation and the Manifestation of Powers'

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11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / b. Elements of beliefs
6171 Beliefs are states of the head that explain behaviour, and also items with referential truth-conditions [McGinn]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 3. Privacy
5210 We could know what a lion thinks by mapping both its brain patterns and its experiences [Douglas,A]
15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 9. Perceiving Causation
17527 Causation seems to be an innate concept (or acquired very early) [Bird]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 2. Types of cause
17528 The dispositional account explains causation, as stimulation and manifestation of dispositions [Bird]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / c. Counterfactual causation
17526 The counterfactual approach makes no distinction between cause and pre-condition [Bird]