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All the ideas for 'Varieties of Causation', 'Carving Content at the Joints' and 'Intro to Oxford Hndbk of Metaphysics'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 6. Metaphysics as Conceptual
9217 Modern empirical metaphysics focuses on ontological commitments of discourse, or on presuppositions [Loux/Zimmerman]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 12. Essential Parts
8443 Mereological essentialism says an entity must have exactly those parts [Sosa]
18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 7. Abstracta by Equivalence
10805 A sentence should be recarved to reveal its content or implication relations [Yablo]
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
8445 The necessitated is not always a result or consequence of the necessitator [Sosa]
8444 Where is the necessary causation in the three people being tall making everybody tall? [Sosa]