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All the ideas for 'Queries to the 'Opticks'', 'Causation and the Flow of Energy' and 'Phil of Mathematics: why nothing works'

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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 1. Mathematical Platonism / b. Against mathematical platonism

3663	How can you contemplate Platonic entities without causal transactions with them? [Putnam]

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

8326	Science has shown that causal relations are just transfers of energy or momentum [Fair, by Sosa/Tooley]

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Fair shifted his view to talk of counterfactuals about energy flow [Fair, by Schaffer,J]

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]