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All the ideas for 'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'The Rationalists' and 'Event Causation: counterfactual analysis'

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11 ideas

7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events

8439	Maybe each event has only one possible causal history [Bennett]

8440	Maybe an event's time of occurrence is essential to it [Bennett]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance

4304	Descartes says there are two substance, Spinoza one, and Leibniz infinitely many [Cottingham]

12. Knowledge Sources / C. Rationalism / 1. Rationalism

4303	The notion of substance lies at the heart of rationalist metaphysics [Cottingham]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues

7903	The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna]

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

8441	Delaying a fire doesn't cause it, but hastening it might [Bennett]

8436	Either cause and effect are subsumed under a conditional because of properties, or it is counterfactual [Bennett]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 2. Types of cause

8435	Causes are between events ('the explosion') or between facts/states of affairs ('a bomb dropped') [Bennett]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / c. Counterfactual causation

8437	The full counterfactual story asserts a series of events, because counterfactuals are not transitive [Bennett]

8438	A counterfactual about an event implies something about the event's essence [Bennett]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

4306	For rationalists, it is necessary that effects be deducible from their causes [Cottingham]