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All the ideas for 'Lectures on the History of Philosophy', 'Prologue to Ordinatio' and 'Grounding, Transitivity and Contrastivity'

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8 ideas

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 3. Philosophy Defined

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Philosophy is the conceptual essence of the shape of history [Hegel]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 1. Grounding / a. Nature of grounding

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As causation links across time, grounding links the world across levels [Schaffer,J]

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If ground is transitive and irreflexive, it has a strict partial ordering, giving structure [Schaffer,J]

11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / c. Aim of beliefs

9100	Our intellect only assents to what we believe to be true [William of Ockham]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / b. Contrastive explanations

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Explaining 'Adam ate the apple' depends on emphasis, and thus implies a contrast [Schaffer,J]

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

9101	Abstractive cognition knows universals abstracted from many singulars [William of Ockham]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 1. Nature

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I take what is fundamental to be the whole spatiotemporal manifold and its fields [Schaffer,J]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation

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Nowadays causation is usually understood in terms of equations and variable ranges [Schaffer,J]