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All the ideas for 'On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense', 'Repetition' and 'Aspects of Scientific Explanation'

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3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 8. Subjective Truth

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Subjective truth can only be sustained by repetition [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle]

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 4. Prediction

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Explanatory facts also predict, and predictive facts also explain [Hempel, by Okasha]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / e. Lawlike explanations

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The covering-law model is for scientific explanation; historical explanation is quite different [Hempel]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / g. Causal explanations

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Hempel rejects causation as part of explanation [Hempel, by Salmon]

15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 3. Abstraction by mind

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Leaves are unequal, but we form the concept 'leaf' by discarding their individual differences [Nietzsche]

23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 8. Eternal Recurrence

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Life is a repetition when what has been now becomes [Kierkegaard]