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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Causation and the Manifestation of Powers' and 'The Sense of Reality'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 1. History of Ideas

7460	The great moments are the death of Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Romanticism [Berlin, by Watson]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 9. Perceiving Causation

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Causation seems to be an innate concept (or acquired very early) [Bird]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character

541	Virtue comes more from habit than character [Critias]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 2. Types of cause

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The dispositional account explains causation, as stimulation and manifestation of dispositions [Bird]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / c. Counterfactual causation

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The counterfactual approach makes no distinction between cause and pre-condition [Bird]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

542	Fear of the gods was invented to discourage secret sin [Critias]