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All the ideas for 'Event Causation: counterfactual analysis', 'Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?' and 'Questions on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics'

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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events

8439	Maybe each event has only one possible causal history [Bennett]

8440	Maybe an event's time of occurrence is essential to it [Bennett]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 2. Qualities in Perception / b. Primary/secondary

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Why can't we deduce secondary qualities from primary ones, if they cause them? [Buridan]

13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 2. Justification Challenges / b. Gettier problem

8886	Being a true justified belief is not a sufficient condition for knowledge [Gettier]

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

8441	Delaying a fire doesn't cause it, but hastening it might [Bennett]

8436	Either cause and effect are subsumed under a conditional because of properties, or it is counterfactual [Bennett]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 2. Types of cause

8435	Causes are between events ('the explosion') or between facts/states of affairs ('a bomb dropped') [Bennett]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / c. Counterfactual causation

8437	The full counterfactual story asserts a series of events, because counterfactuals are not transitive [Bennett]

8438	A counterfactual about an event implies something about the event's essence [Bennett]