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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Aspects of Scientific Explanation' and 'On the Principles of Indiscernibles'

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6 ideas

10. Modality / A. Necessity / 8. Transcendental Necessity

490	Everything happens by reason and necessity [Leucippus]

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 4. Prediction

22179

Explanatory facts also predict, and predictive facts also explain [Hempel, by Okasha]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / e. Lawlike explanations

6755	For Hempel, explanations are deductive-nomological or probabilistic-statistical [Hempel, by Bird]

17083

The covering-law model is for scientific explanation; historical explanation is quite different [Hempel]

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

13052

Hempel rejects causation as part of explanation [Hempel, by Salmon]

28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / a. Ontological Proof

2116	The concept of an existing thing must contain more than the concept of a non-existing thing [Leibniz]