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All the ideas for 'Two Problems of Epistemology', 'Consilience' and 'Counterfactual Dependence and Time's Arrow'

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14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 6. Falsification

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Particulars can be verified or falsified, but general statements can only be falsified (conclusively) [Popper]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / c. A unified people

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The biology of societies: kin selection, parenting, mating; status, territory, contracts [Wilson,EO]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 5. Direction of causation

8433	There are few traces of an event before it happens, but many afterwards [Lewis, by Horwich]