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All the ideas for 'Subjectivist's Guide to Objective Chance', 'Meditatio de principio individui' and 'Mathematical Physics'

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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 3. Abstracta by Ignoring
9567 Maths deals with quantities of physical significance, ignoring irrelevant features [Geroch]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity
12702 Causes can be inferred from perfect knowledge of their effects [Leibniz]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / b. Best system theory
9425 Lewis later proposed the axioms at the intersection of the best theories (which may be few) [Mumford on Lewis]