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All the ideas for 'works', 'Homeostasis, Species and Higher Taxa' and 'Counterfactual Dependence and Time's Arrow'

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4 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 2. Wise People

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Tell cleverness from answers, but wisdom from questions [Mahfouz]

26. Natural Theory / B. Natural Kinds / 4. Source of Kinds

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The properties of an electron can't be explained just as 'clustering' [Chakravartty on Boyd]

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Properties cluster together, either because of intrinsic relations, or because of an underlying process [Boyd, by Chakravartty]

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]