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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Homeostasis, Species and Higher Taxa' and 'Queries to the 'Opticks''

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4 ideas

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention

1556	By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]

26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 4. Source of Kinds

15150

The properties of an electron can't be explained just as 'clustering' [Chakravartty on Boyd]

15149

Properties cluster together, either because of intrinsic relations, or because of an underlying process [Boyd, by Chakravartty]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 1. Laws of Nature

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Principles of things are not hidden features of forms, but the laws by which they were formed [Newton]