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All the ideas for 'Causes and Counterfactuals', 'Letters to Thomas Burnett' and '12: Colossians'

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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 7. Despair over Philosophy
8138 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy [Paul]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / a. Substance
13197 The notion of substance is one of the keys to true philosophy [Leibniz]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 1. Causation
8430 Causal statements are used to explain, to predict, to control, to attribute responsibility, and in theories [Kim]
26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / c. Counterfactual causation
8396 Many counterfactuals have nothing to do with causation [Kim, by Tooley]
8429 Counterfactuals can express four other relations between events, apart from causation [Kim]
8428 Causation is not the only dependency relation expressed by counterfactuals [Kim]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws
13198 Gravity is within matter because of its structure, and it can be explained. [Leibniz]
26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 9. Counterfactual Claims
4781 Many counterfactual truths do not imply causation ('if yesterday wasn't Monday, it isn't Tuesday') [Kim, by Psillos]