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All the ideas for 'works', 'Causation' and 'Ethics without Principles'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 1. Aims of Science
6782 Realism is the only philosophy of science that doesn't make the success of science a miracle [Putnam]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 4. Anti-realism
22181 Putnam says anti-realism is a bad explanation of accurate predictions [Putnam, by Okasha]
7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 8. Facts / a. Facts
8386 Events are picked out by descriptions, and facts by whole sentences [Crane]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / a. Nature of value
18681 The base for values has grounds, catalysts and intensifiers [Dancy,J, by Orsi]
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]