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All the ideas for 'Introduction to 'Causation'', 'Philosophical Fragments' and 'From Stimulus to Science'

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2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 3. Non-Contradiction
6564 To affirm 'p and not-p' is to have mislearned 'and' or 'not' [Quine]
7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 5. Reason for Existence
16007 I assume existence, rather than reasoning towards it [Kierkegaard]
10. Modality / A. Necessity / 2. Nature of Necessity
16013 Nothing necessary can come into existence, since it already 'is' [Kierkegaard]
15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 9. Perceiving Causation
8329 Either causal relations are given in experience, or they are unobserved and theoretical [Sosa/Tooley]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation
8324 The problem is to explain how causal laws and relations connect, and how they link to the world [Sosa/Tooley]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation
8328 Causation isn't energy transfer, because an electron is caused by previous temporal parts [Sosa/Tooley]
8327 If direction of causation is just direction of energy transfer, that seems to involve causation [Sosa/Tooley]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / c. Conditions of causation
8330 Are causes sufficient for the event, or necessary, or both? [Sosa/Tooley]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / b. Nomological causation
8325 The dominant view is that causal laws are prior; a minority say causes can be explained singly [Sosa/Tooley]