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All the ideas for 'The Birth of Tragedy', 'The Foundations of Mathematics' and 'Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World'

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4 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

7848	Philosophy begins in the horror and absurdity of existence [Nietzsche, by Ansell Pearson]

5. Theory of Logic / D. Assumptions for Logic / 2. Excluded Middle

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You would cripple mathematics if you denied Excluded Middle [Hilbert]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / i. Explanations by mechanism

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Causation produces productive mechanisms; to understand the world, understand these mechanisms [Salmon]

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Salmon's interaction mechanisms needn't be regular, or involving any systems [Glennan on Salmon]