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All the ideas for 'Causes and Conditions', 'Unpublished Notebooks 1881-82' and 'The Sign of Four'

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22 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 5. Objectivity
24084 Seeing with other eyes is more egoism, but exploring other perspectives leads to objectivity [Nietzsche]
3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 3. Value of Truth
24092 I tell the truth, even if it is repulsive [Nietzsche]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects
24089 Essences are fictions needed for beings who represent things [Nietzsche]
14. Science / C. Induction / 1. Induction
22200 If you eliminate the impossible, the truth will remain, even if it is weird [Conan Doyle]
15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 5. Unity of Mind
24090 Our inclinations would not conflict if we were a unity; we imagine unity for our multiplicity [Nietzsche]
21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 6. The Sublime
24087 People who miss beauty seek the sublime, where even the ugly shows its 'beauty' [Nietzsche]
24091 The sublimity of nature which dwarfs us was a human creation [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature
24093 We can aspire to greatness by creating new functions for ourselves [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / c. Objective value
24085 For absolute morality a goal for mankind is needed [Nietzsche]
22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / g. Consequentialism
24094 Humans are vividly aware of short-term effects, and almost ignorant of the long-term ones [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 1. Existentialism
24086 The goal is to settle human beings, like other animals, but humans are still changeable [Nietzsche]
23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 8. Eternal Recurrence
24088 See our present lives as eternal! Religions see it as fleeting, and aim at some different life [Nietzsche]
25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / d. Study of history
24095 Our growth is too subtle to perceive, and long events are too slow for us to grasp [Nietzsche]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / a. Observation of causation
8337 Some says mental causation is distinct because we can recognise single occurrences [Mackie]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata
8342 Mackie tries to analyse singular causal statements, but his entities are too vague for events [Kim on Mackie]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / c. Conditions of causation
8343 Necessity and sufficiency are best suited to properties and generic events, not individual events [Kim on Mackie]
8385 A cause is part of a wider set of conditions which suffices for its effect [Mackie, by Crane]
8335 Necessary conditions are like counterfactuals, and sufficient conditions are like factual conditionals [Mackie]
8336 The INUS account interprets single events, and sequences, causally, without laws being known [Mackie]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / d. Selecting the cause
8333 A cause is an Insufficient but Necessary part of an Unnecessary but Sufficient condition [Mackie]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / b. Nomological causation
8395 Mackie has a nomological account of general causes, and a subjunctive conditional account of single ones [Mackie, by Tooley]
8334 The virus causes yellow fever, and is 'the' cause; sweets cause tooth decay, but they are not 'the' cause [Mackie]