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All the ideas for 'Varieties of Causation', 'Could a computer ever understand?' and 'Euthyphro'

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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 12. Essential Parts
8443 Mereological essentialism says an entity must have exactly those parts [Sosa]
13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 6. Relativism Critique
335 Do the gods also hold different opinions about what is right and honourable? [Plato]
15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 1. Consciousness / e. Cause of consciousness
4921 Quantum states in microtubules could bind brain activity to produce consciousness [Penrose]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / b. Nomological causation
8442 What law would explain causation in the case of causing a table to come into existence? [Sosa]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity
8444 Where is the necessary causation in the three people being tall making everybody tall? [Sosa]
8445 The necessitated is not always a result or consequence of the necessitator [Sosa]
28. God / A. Divine Nature / 6. Divine Morality / b. Euthyphro question
337 It seems that the gods love things because they are pious, rather than making them pious by loving them [Plato]
336 Is what is pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because they love it? (the 'Euthyphro Question') [Plato]