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All the ideas for 'The Facts of Causation', 'Commentary on Sentences' and 'Replies to Critics'

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5 ideas

3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / a. What makes truths

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We might use 'facta' to refer to the truth-makers for facts [Mellor, by Schaffer,J]

3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth

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Names, descriptions and predicates refer to things; without that, language and thought are baffling [Davidson]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 13. Nominal Essence

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If you remove the accidents from a horse and a lion, the intellect can't tell them apart [Francis of Marchia]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata

4785	Causal statements relate facts (which are whatever true propositions express) [Mellor, by Psillos]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / e. Probabilistic causation

8408	Probabilistic causation says C is a cause of E if it increases the chances of E occurring [Mellor, by Tooley]