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All the ideas for 'A Puzzle Concerning Matter and Form', 'Letter to Pythocles' and 'Intentionality and the Physical: reply to Mumford'

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6 ideas

8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 4. Powers as Essence

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The possible Aristotelian view that forms are real and active principles is clearly wrong [Fine,K, by Pasnau]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 3. Best Explanation / c. Against best explanation

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We should accept as explanations all the plausible ways in which something could come about [Epicurus]

15. Nature of Minds / B. Features of Minds / 4. Intentionality / b. Intentionality theories

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Intentionality is the mark of dispositions, not of the mental [Place]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 8. Scientific Essentialism / c. Essence and laws

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Dispositions are not general laws, but laws of the natures of individual entities [Place]

27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology

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A cosmos is a collection of stars and an earth, with some sort of boundary, movement and shape [Epicurus]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 3. Deism

1828	God does not intervene in heavenly movements, but is beyond all action and perfectly happy [Epicurus]