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All the ideas for 'Leibniz', 'Homeostasis, Species and Higher Taxa' and 'Causality: Reductionism versus Realism'

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5 ideas

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 7. Indiscernible Objects

7566	The Identity of Indiscernibles is really the same as the verification principle [Jolley]

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 / 4. Naturalised causation

8416	Reductionists can't explain accidents, uninstantiated laws, probabilities, or the existence of any laws [Tooley]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / e. Probabilistic causation

8418	Quantum physics suggests that the basic laws of nature are probabilistic [Tooley]