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All the ideas for 'Mechanism, purpose and explan. exclusion', 'Reals by Abstraction' and 'Contemporary Efficient Causation: Aristotelian themes'

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / g. Real numbers

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The real numbers may be introduced by abstraction as ratios of quantities [Hale, by Hale/Wright]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 1. Explanation / a. Explanation

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Explanatory exclusion: there cannot be two separate complete explanations of a single event [Kim]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation

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Causation interests us because we want to explain change [Mumford]