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All the ideas for 'Grounding, Transitivity and Contrastivity', 'Letter to Peter Wilhelm Lund' and '14: Superstition'

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7 ideas

3. Truth / A. Truth Problems / 8. Subjective Truth

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I recognise knowledge, but it is the truth by which I can live and die that really matters [Kierkegaard]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 1. Grounding / a. Nature of grounding

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If ground is transitive and irreflexive, it has a strict partial ordering, giving structure [Schaffer,J]

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As causation links across time, grounding links the world across levels [Schaffer,J]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / b. Contrastive explanations

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Explaining 'Adam ate the apple' depends on emphasis, and thus implies a contrast [Schaffer,J]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 1. Nature

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I take what is fundamental to be the whole spatiotemporal manifold and its fields [Schaffer,J]

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

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Nowadays causation is usually understood in terms of equations and variable ranges [Schaffer,J]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

5957	Absurd superstitions make people atheist, not disharmony in nature [Plutarch]