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All the ideas for 'Varieties of Causation', 'Commentary on the Sentences' and 'fragments/reports'

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7 ideas

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 12. Essential Parts
16792 If parts change, the whole changes [William of Ockham]
8443 Mereological essentialism says an entity must have exactly those parts [Sosa]
23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / e. Character
541 Virtue comes more from habit than character [Critias]
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]
28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism
542 Fear of the gods was invented to discourage secret sin [Critias]