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All the ideas for 'The Facts of Causation', 'The Basing Relation' and 'Philosophy without Intuitions'

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2. Reason / E. Argument / 7. Thought Experiments
20183 So-called 'though experiments' are just philosophers observing features of the world [Cappelen]
3. Truth / B. Truthmakers / 5. What Makes Truths / a. What makes truths
10365 We might use 'facta' to refer to the truth-makers for facts [Mellor, by Schaffer,J]
11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / a. Beliefs
19696 There are reasons 'for which' a belief is held, reasons 'why' it is believed, and reasons 'to' believe it [Neta]
19697 The basing relation of a reason to a belief should both support and explain the belief [Neta]
12. Knowledge Sources / E. Direct Knowledge / 2. Intuition
20182 The word 'intuitive' often plays not role at all in arguments, and can be removed [Cappelen]
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]