Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Problem of Natural Laws', 'Making Things Happen' and 'De aequopollentia causae et effectus'

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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 1. Powers

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Everything has a fixed power, as required by God, and by the possibility of reasoning [Leibniz]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / g. Causal explanations

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An explanation is a causal graph [Woodward,J, by Strevens]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 3. Laws and Generalities

4800	Natural laws result from eliminative induction, where enumerative induction gives generalisations [Cohen,LJ, by Psillos]