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All the ideas for 'The Inference to the Best Explanation', 'Manuscript remains' and 'Causation'

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7 ideas

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

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Philosophers can't be religious, and don't need to be; philosophy is perilous but free [Schopenhauer]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / a. Facts

8386	Events are picked out by descriptions, and facts by whole sentences [Crane]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 3. Best Explanation / a. Best explanation

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Best Explanation is the core notion of epistemology [Harman, by Smart]

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act

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As the subject of willing I am wretched, but absorption in knowledge is bliss [Schopenhauer]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / b. Rational ethics

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To deduce morality from reason is blasphemy, because it is holy, and far above reason [Schopenhauer]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 4. Naturalised causation

8387	A cause has its effects in virtue of its properties [Crane]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / a. Constant conjunction

8384	The regularity theory explains a causal event by other items than the two that are involved [Crane]